Quotes About Discrimination

It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict pain upon me for no other reason than the color of my skin.

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.

When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

Injustice drives me crazy!

I believe that there are issues in this country - many issues, too many to name. It's not one particular issue. But there are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in our country on a daily basis.

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.

Yes, I went through overt racism as a footballer in the 80s and early 90s but that was, or is, nothing compared to what the average black person in the inner cities of England goes through every day.

White liberals are the most racist people I've ever met in my entire life. They define everything by race. They want people to be able to get into college with lower grades and lower school scores simply because they are African American. That's insane.

Then it's very easy to point fingers at other people and use this kind of rhetoric, infestation and comparing people to rodents, insects, showing them as very undesirable people - not people who feel the same, who care about their families too, no, but as people who are different and less human, to dehumanize them.

Imagine being the kids that don't get the job - you're just not beautiful enough I'm afraid, my darling, now off you pop and be riddled with insecurities for the rest of your life.

There's a big difference between being racist and racially insensitive.

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.

Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.