Quotes About Discrimination

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.

We live in an age of micro aggressions where people are deemed racist or sexist of phobic for making one wrong tweet.

I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.

Like any woman in the public eye, I get a considerable number of sexist/misogynistic tweets from people.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.

Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured into it, they saw street after street of sagging duplexes, fading murals, twenty-four hour daycares, and corner stores with 'WIC Accepted Here' signs.

The most beautiful girl in the room not only gets the guy, she lands the job, gets better service at a restaurant, rises through the social ranks before her friends. Doors open for the beautiful woman that may not for a female who is twice as smart but half as beautiful.

Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.

A lot of people don't want to hire disabled actors. They think you're going to take twice as long over a shot, or they don't want have to put up a ramp for disabled access. They think, 'Why would I do that when I can just hire an able-bodied actor to play the disabled character?'

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.