Quotes About Discrimination

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

When we have people elected into office that believe in conversion therapy and are trying to strip trans rights in the military and do these things that are directly attacking the LGBT community, I have no patience.

I'm constantly told in the industry that I don't look like a woman, so therefore, I can't be put in editorials and campaigns because people wouldn't get it.

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.

There are schools that have rules against afro puffs. They say it's distracting. But nobody is saying that about a little girl who has ponytails.

You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to private schools, you know, encountered different people who think that it's OK to make comments, insensitive comments about your race because they're joking. And think that if they're joking and they say it, you know, good-naturedly, that things will fly.

I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.

'Pretty' is most often synonymous with being thin, white, able-bodied, and cis, and the closer you are to those ideals, the more often you will be labeled pretty - and benefit from that prettiness.

If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.

For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

I don't think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

People think 'big data' avoids the problem of discrimination because you are dealing with big data sets, but, in fact, big data is being used for more and more precise forms of discrimination - a form of data redlining.

You're not homophobic for thinking that something gay is bad. All gay movies are bad.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the dark skin is evidence of Indian blood, a sign that one technically belongs to a third class. Even my grandmother had some kind of differentiation with me, because I was darker than my siblings.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.