Quotes About Discrimination

The American Bar Association documented 45,000 legal sanctions and restrictions imposed upon people with criminal records, a near-impenetrable barrier denying access to employment, student loans, housing, public assistance, custody of your children, the right to vote—in many places, the formerly incarcerated are even blocked from visiting a loved one in prison.

Discriminatory legislation emboldens those who seek to make us afraid while giving those communities it hurts a concrete reason to fear. We must stay away from anti-immigrant legislation as well as so-called religious freedom legislation that harms our LGBTQ communities.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or dwell on these as they encounter the quotidian events of their day.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

For historic reasons - principally the political Right's opposition to gay rights - most gay spokespeople continue to think that the political Right is the sole locale from which anti-gay sentiment can come.

There's no problem with a woman being president of the United States if you take her gender as a sole issue. Gender shouldn't matter.

Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not.