Quotes About Discrimination

As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I'd show up at a meeting and they'd be like, 'Oh my God, you speak English! That's so cool.' They didn't really know what to do with me.

I've always been 'other' in all the spaces that I've been in. Even when I first moved to America, just the idea that I was a dark-skinned black girl from England with an accent. It's one thing to be a black girl, but it's another to be a dark black girl. I was chastised for that. I was chastised for the way I spoke.

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

Oh no, honey, I can't read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.