Quotes About Discrimination

Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

Guys with bigger boobs than I have walk around, and they're fine. If women were to do that, they could go to jail. That's totally wrong.

If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin. As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

I worked with guys in Japan that were champions and they came over here for six months or a year and they treated them like garbage.

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

I've had agents tell me, 'You're not gonna be on the cover of anything; you're a catalog girl.' I've had clients tell me, 'You're too fat, and we can't book you any more because you don't fit into the jeans.'

If you're working for a sexist jerk, you have to leave.

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.

I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.

Jews rule the world by proxy.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.