Quotes About Discrimination

I think us humans are just so cruel to each other. We just want to keep judging each other on our looks.

Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

I have heard stories of how the Malayali jury members trying to play down actors from our own state, stating various reasons.

Just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not homophobic.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

There's no justification to not be paid the same as the men. We do everything the men do.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.

With the Kick It Out campaign, I was interested in asking: 'Why is antisemitism a lesser racism than other racisms?' I genuinely believe that to be the case - that negative stuff said against Jews isn't considered that important.

They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

Everybody kicks those who do not have a country of their own.

The Congress and its kin parties such as the BJP are up to grab the rights of Dalits.

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen.' Men who have never changed a nappy, mainly, and couldn't pick their child's teacher out in a police line-up.

At some point in time, we're going to have to stop addressing the kneeling, and we're going to have to start addressing what led Colin Kaepernick to kneel. That's the issue that nobody wants to talk about.

I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.