Quotes About Discrimination

Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

Around the world, when China has good results, people always think something bad.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

I don't believe in reverse racism. I really don't.

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

The criminal justice system is rigged against African Americans.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

I have been in rooms with people arguing over a character that's not really fleshed out: that, just because the surname is Latino, that automatically means you have an accent.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person. But these DAs in the state of Alabama are racist.

I was put on death row because of hate.

In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

The Russians are taunting the IOC with the homophobic laws that they pass.

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

People really cannot understand the concept of a black boy in a tracksuit in London being from Scotland.

I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me. There were no black Scottish role models.

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.

You don't want a second-class set of citizens inside the United States.

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

Education is there to help our children negotiate the world and understand the communities they're a part of. We owe it to them to provide them with the best information we can to live their lives happily, safely, and without discrimination.

Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.