Quotes About Discrimination

We have all had, on all sides of the House - some truly appalling things said about us. I've been called a race traitor, a coconut, a sell out. It's horrible and it's never the kind of thing that should be normalised or accepted.

The Trump-Pence administration has truly become one of the most explicitly anti-LGBTQ administrations in history.

In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

In 2017, it's discouraging that it seems like we're going backward. And that's not just because of Trump; that's because we, as humans, condone discrimination; it's a human issue. It's part of something bigger.

I wasn't born in Mexico - I was born in Nicaragua - but I know that, when somebody like Donald Trump says 'Mexicans,' he means all of us. He means anybody who comes from south of the border.

Donald J. Trump is not only a racist but a misogynist and a bigot.

When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.

At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary.

People are terrified of them to the point where Trump wants to ban all Muslims from coming here, which is ridiculous.

I was born black in this country. Trust me, I've seen the government.

As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.

People hate people just cause they want someone different to hate.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.

What would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue.

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.