Quotes About Discrimination

Calling you a racist and sexist, a bigot and a homophobe, gives them a sense of satisfaction with their status in the universe, even if they never help a single individual human being.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

At that time you were insulted by law clerks, excluded from white bar associations and when I was in court, I was lucky to be called Ben, usually it was just 'boy.' [But] the judges were always fair. The discrimination of those days has changed and, today, the South is ahead of the North in many respects in civil rights progress.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

I'm Asian, so they assumed I'm not an American and that I come from Japan. Restaurants would refuse to serve me, and places would refuse to give you a haircut.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Asian-Americans are still regarded as 'other' by many of their fellow-citizens.

Britain went to war in 1939 in the name of freedom and democracy, but fielded armies within whose ranks were black and brown men who were regarded and often treated as second-class citizens.

What David Duke was preaching to me in 1978 about the Klan and what the Klan wanted to do regarding immigration is the same rhetoric, the same position that Donald J. Trump advocates and ran on and is trying to implement.

There are hierarchies in B-Town regarding many things, not just gender. Men also go through a lot in this industry.

For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate.

There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.

Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.

There are no grounds for discrimination in Europe, regardless of whether on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, or religion. On the other hand, there is equally no place for radical thought and political Islam.

As a woman people judge you on your looks regardless of the fact you're just there to race.

I'm not saying this is all men, but in my experience as a woman, I'm not taken as seriously in a leadership role regardless of how good I am at what I'm doing.

I have truly never been honest outside of the home in regards to racism and inequality and what I've been subject to.

I encountered on a regular basis rude comments and sexual innuendo and cat calls and overt sexual propositions in professional settings.

I have been regularly confronted with racism, very regularly, and since my earliest childhood.

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'

I did some modelling when I was 16 and was told I was a 'palatable kind of brown.' That hit me quite hard. You're not brought up to think it's good to be different and the fashion industry has a responsibility to not reinforce that impression.

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.