Quotes About Discrimination

There is a very thin line between nationalism and racism.

Only a fellow white Protestant did not require such

Le New York Observer s'était déjà demandé s'il serait un jour possible de voir un homme noir libéré sous caution dans le cadre d'un procès pour meurtre, et je devais bien admettre que non.

When programmers speak of "computer literacy," they are drawing red lines around ethnic groups, too, yet few have pointed this out.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

There was no letter in the Jewish stars though. No matter where we had come from, we had no country. We were only Jews.

I know from personal experience what it's like to be discriminated against. I remember people telling me, 'Ladies don't become lawyers,' and now I look at America and know what can be done.

I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.

Race impacts 90 percent of our society - and I'm probably undershooting that figure. I find this fascinating and like to address it when pertinent.

We have an institutional problem with pervasive racism.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.

Growing up in a brand-new country, coming from the Philippines, was hard. I was treated differently and felt like people thought less of me because I was Asian.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.