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Quotes About Discrimination

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
~ Ally Sheedy
Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.
~ Kyle MacLachlan
If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.
~ Peter Dinklage
Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
~ Jack Antonoff
My whole life, I was told that the U.S. was a horrible country.
~ Vitali Klitschko
Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.
~ Ken Loach
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
~ Jesse Jackson
A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
~ Dev Hynes
I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink and a Gook. Every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I've been called it.
~ Arden Cho
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
~ Jonathan Kozol
Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
~ George Takei
One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
~ Anna Paquin
When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.
~ Raphael Warnock
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
~ Charles B. Rangel
If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.
~ Jared Harris
Let's face it: there's still a certain amount of racism in human beings, so that shows up in Hollywood.
~ James Gunn
What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?
~ Al Roker
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
~ James Earl Jones
I've tried to apply for jobs and I've been hung up on because of how I speak.
~ Rosie Jones
You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.
~ Gillian Flynn
That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.
~ Gillian Flynn
Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they're easily offended.
~ Gillian Flynn
I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.
~ Gillian Flynn