Quotes About Discrimination

I was bullied by a freshman named Jeanine. She was black and supremely racist. Jeanine used to say, 'Brownie, go back to your country. You smell of curry,' or 'Do you smell curry coming?'

If Kaepernick is trying to become a backup quarterback, and we're seeing guys like Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith being picked ahead him, then you can argue that he is being blackballed.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

When Western filmmakers look for an Indian they want him to play a snake charmer, a chauffeur or a peanut vendor.

What we thought brings us a disadvantage, brings us an advantage against the American black rappers, because they look all the same, with their training outfits and sneakers, you know? But we didn't know this, it wasn't calculated.

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

So many people put older women out to pasture.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

I've had so many people in my life put me down because of how I look. When I worked in restaurants, I had people say, 'I don't want her to serve my food,' because I looked dirty or something.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

The Nixon White House had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people.... We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

Young children by age three begin to inhibit some of their naturally altruistic behavior. They become more discriminating about whom they help. They share more often with others who have shared with them in the past.

ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her.

Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work.

Under the authority of a language that had been carefully expurgated so that it was no longer directly named, sex was taken charge of, tracked down as it were, by a discourse that aimed to allow it no obscurity, no respite.

Ratero, si un pobre se mete en casa de un rico, ya se sabe, es un ladrón ¿no? —Un ladrón —asintía el Ratero. —Pero si un rico se mete en casa de un pobre, ¿qué es? —¿Qué es? —repetía estúpidamente el tío Ratero. —¡Una rata!

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.

Tidak setiap perempuan pantas disebut sebagai seorang wanita.