Quotes About Discrimination

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

Witch hunters is white women's worry.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

We still have a long way to go. Because the reality is that I'm 52-years-old. And how many 55 to 60-year-old women do you see in sports broadcasting? How many? I see a lot of 60-year-old men broadcasting. The physical appearance and natural aging of all the men doing this job don't matter.

Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

Racism springs from ignorance.

There is a lot of discrimination. Consider this: whenever a badminton squad is sent for an international meet, there are usually 10 boys and 3-4 girls. Why is it like this? Why can't we send an equal number of boys and girls?

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.

Racism at the stadium should be ignored, it is not right that this minority are given so much attention.