Quotes About Discrimination

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those.

We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.

I've certainly experienced being treated not as an equal.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

For a number of years at my public elementary school in rural Maine, I was treated like all the other girls in school. That changed in September 2007 when a male classmate, set on a path by his grandfather, followed me into the girls' restroom. The end result was that I had to use the school's staff bathroom - just me, no one else.

Pregnancy is treated like an illness in some sections of our society.

Once my family was taken, I became fully aware that my community matters less to some people. That we are treated differently because of the color of our skin or where our parents were born.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

Gay relationships have historically not been treated the same as straight relationships.

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

Racism was a big part of our community. I'm not going to revisit history, and I'm not going to call out those communities, but the communities we grew up around, we were treated like second- or third-class citizens.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.