Quotes About Discrimination

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.

I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country.

I think Barack Obama thinks that Muslims are the ones being persecuted, and he has to change that. The fact is he is contributing to Christians being persecuted, not only around the world, but in America as well.

Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

Racism is not the exclusive attribute of young nations where sometimes it hides beneath the rivalries of clans and political parties, with heavy losses for justice and at the risk of civil wars. It is still an obstacle to collaboration and a cause of division and hatred within countries whenever individuals and families see the inviolable rights of the human person held in scorn as they themselves are unjustly subjected to a regime of discrimination because of their race or their color.

Kowé kira, kalo sudah pake pakean Eropa, bersama orang Eropa, bisa sedikit bicara Belanda lantas jadi Eropa? Tetap monyet!

Kebawelan banyak kali dianggap wanita sebagai ukuran kelihaian.

Seorang pelayan wanita menghidangkan susu coklat dan kue. Dan pelayan itu tidak datang merangkak-rangkak seperti pada majikan Pribumi. Malah dia melihat padaku seperti menyatakan keheranan. Tak mungkin yang demikian terjadi pada majikan Pribumi: dia harus menunduk, menunduk terus. Dan alangkah indah kehidupan tanpa merangkak-rangkak di hadapan orang lain.

Hidup sebagai nyai terlalu sulit. Dia cuma seorang budak belian yang kewajibannya hanya memuaskan tuannya. Dalam segala hal! Sebaliknya setiap waktu orang harus bersiap-siap terhadap kemungkinan tuannya sudah merasa bosan. Salah-salah bisa badan diusir dengan semua anak, anak sendiri, yang tidak dihargai oleh umum Pribumi karena dilahirkan tanpa perkawinan syah.

Kalau aku tak memiliki tubuh indah dan wajah cantik mungkin aku jadi sebagian dari mereka yang dibunuh pelan-pelan itu.

Age is truly an oppression for women.

Private companies think that the employees are their slaves, so they must be harassed and humiliated always. One of its ways of doing such things is to intentionally deny the progress of one who actually deserves growth while deliberately promoting the nitwits to the high-ranking positions.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.