Quotes About Discrimination

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

The fear of loneliness has been like a ball and chain restraining ambition, as much of an obstacle to a full life as persecution, discrimination or poverty. Until the chain is broken, freedom, for many, will remain a nightmare.

The visible, in-your-face manifestations of oppression have been mostly eliminated. But you scarcely can find a Black student who cannot recall or give you a litany of instances when he or she was automatically assumed to be intellectually incompetent.

Other corporations have asserted Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination as well as asserted that the Fourteenth Amendment—passed after the Civil War to strip slavery from the Constitution—protects their right "against discrimination" by a local community that doesn't want them building a toxic waste incinerator, commercial hog operation, or superstore.

For he was big, and I don't care what you say, for every inch a man grows over five foot five, his brain diminishes proportionately. All my life I have had a prejudice against overgrown louts.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Sharon Needles was based on two things: That she was beautiful and that she was stupid.

Needless to say, I fully support the legal codes that are meant to protect individuals from discrimination.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

When actors do anti-hero roles, they are critically acclaimed. When heroines do negative roles, they are sidelined from the industry.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.

I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years.

If America vetted Muslim immigrants as toughly as the 'New York Times' vets Donald Trump, this would be a safe country.