Quotes About Discrimination

In my neighborhood if you had a nice car, you know what they said about it? You didn't pay for it. If you wore your clothes a certain way, they questioned your sexuality. If you was smart in school they called you a nerd. If you had a disability, they highlighted it. There's no praise. There's only criticism.

We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest.

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.

When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.

I had been pulled over quite a bit by police officers, especially in Santa Monica and Culver City.

A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.

I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

Most women's races don't pay much at all.

In Baton Rouge, blacks have always been looked at differently from other races, and the blacks who are fortunate, don't express themselves like I do.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

I don't get played on radio anymore. Once you're over 40, forget it.