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Quotes About Discrimination

I do not understand why Muslims are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act. CAA is not for the Muslims who were born here.
~ Raj Thackeray
You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.
~ Bill Cosby
In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.
~ Ryan Seacrest
What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?
~ Euripides
Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents. --Cousin Jasper
~ Evelyn Waugh
From this task of ordered discrimination he had been thrown into the ruthless, cut-throat, rough-and-tumble of the Beast's Woman's Page.
~ Evelyn Waugh
You'll notice a blond person is expected to talk. If a blond girl doesn't talk we call her a 'doll'; if a light-haired man is silent he's considered stupid. Yet the world is full of 'dark silent men' and 'languorous brunettes' who haven't a brain in their heads, but somehow are never accused of the dearth.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before — and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
gray, scrawny Italian child
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Physical difference frightens people in our culture more than anything else. You can be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically - put a bone in your nose - and boy, you're in trouble!
~ Fakir Musafar
This meant that the families of the girls who had been killed would be receiving no death benefits, and at the end of the war, the WASPs, unlike all other discharged veterans, would be left with no GI Bill, no medical, no nothing.
~ Fannie Flagg
No wonder the report found that minorities made up 37% of the US labor force in February 2020 but accounted for 58% of the newly unemployed by mid-March.)
~ Fareed Zakaria
As principais personalidades de Tupã pedem ao governo: campo de concentração e pena de morte para os japoneses.
~ Fernando Morais
Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.
~ Flann O'Brien
Fancy expensive designer shops are out for me as I'm a size 18, sometimes 20, and I therefore do not count as a woman to them.
~ Sarah Millican
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
~ Alice Walker
I want the fascist Qur'an banned.
~ Geert Wilders
I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.
~ Cass Elliot
I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.
~ Richard Griffiths
In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
~ Maxine Peake
When an actor charges high fees, nobody says anything. But when an actress does the same, it becomes news.
~ Vijayashanti
It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
~ Debra Wilson