Quotes About Discrimination

In America we talk about South Africa, but I tell people that apartheid is nothing compared to what is happening in my country where black oppresses black.

In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in the United States, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States.

One of the main points everywhere in my life is fairness. Coming from South Africa and being treated unfairly all your life because of your skin colour, that's been a huge point.

A 'township' in the U.S. is a small area. In South Africa it's a place designated for non-white people during the apartheid.

When I think about our HBCUs, I think of icons like my mentor Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina State graduate, who fought against discrimination and segregation, and continues to champion for civil rights and equality.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.

I knew no one in New York City was going to hire me if I had a southern accent.

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

We need to afford people from minority groups and marginalized communities the chance to inhabit spaces they're often held out of because of stereotyping.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

Small streams of hatred can quickly lead to unstoppable, horrific things, so [people] should stand up to any type of persecution or discrimination, whether bullying or malicious gossip.

Why must Justice have a color? Is it the same "REASON" that the sky are "BLUE?

If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.

These statements, of the virtue of sex energy, should not be construed as justification for the libertine. The emotion of sex is a virtue ONLY when used intelligently, and with discrimination. It may be misused, and often is, to such an extent that it debases, instead of enriches, both body and mind.

We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.

you may be committing an injustice to others by favoring him.

Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.