Quotes About Discrimination

Why the devil they have to put that 'girlie girlie' tea party description every time they tell anything a professional woman does, is more than I can see.

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

See as a Muslim myself, I have never faced any intolerance or any discrimination in any part of the country, instead I have been showered with love, but the people who say that they have faced intolerance must be given a chance to speak up, instead of muzzling their voice.

Sadly, Isis are extremely intolerant of homosexuality.

There's a false concept that being gay and out in Hollywood will hurt your career. It's intrinsic homophobia. It's as if being gay is bad.

Today, nobody has a problem with a women working, but every woman invariably faces casual sexism at work.

'Article 15' is an investigative drama where the audience too is an accused party.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

I remember the first time that I realized that being black meant that I wasn't allowed certain things. It was in the fourth grade, and it was who I thought was my best friend not inviting me to his birthday party because I would be the only black kid there. It was the first time I ever felt restricted, and it certainly wasn't the last time.

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at?

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.

The truth is that Islam is not like any other faith. It is the religious equivalent of fascism.

I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress.

We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.

The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that's in any field. There is also this idea that there can only be one gay person or there can only be one Asian-American woman in the office, and so it also perpetuates itself where we are isolated, especially the more successful we get.

While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.