Quotes About Discrimination

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

Everyone has images in their mind of what to expect from different groups.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

President Trump's executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

I will call out someone if he's Islamophobic, and I will also call out anti-Semitism. It's immoral to call out one and not the other.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.

While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

I know many women in this industry have to deal with men who are belittling, unsupportive or even inappropriate.

You need not give others a chance to exploit you always. We should know what kind of exploitation is taking place. I cannot create an incident to say that women have been exploited in Malayalam film industry.

I think people are just going to be people, and racism is a thing. If people have an inclination to be racist then they are going to be, and there is not a whole lot that you can do about it.

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.