Quotes About Discrimination

They see what they need to see. Black folk cain't be choicy. They see what they gots to see.

past Louis Armstrong Park, a place no white person in his right mind enters either day or night

Frankly, I don't care what happens to your father, Varina. He's an ignorant, stupid man, a racist, and a bully who molested black women and jailed and beat their men. His sin lies not in his ignorance and stupidity but in his choice to stay ignorant and stupid.

People are sold over this desk just like cattle in the Chicago yards, and for exactly the same reason: they've got the points the buyer wants. All right, now take a look at something that does concern you. See those greens? That means 'No Married Women.

Being a Negro's a lie, anyway. Nobody sees the real you. Nobody knows who you are inside. You just judged on what you are on the outside whatever your color. Mulatto, colored, black, it don't matter. You just a Negro to the world.

He ain't gonna live long, child. He's crazy. He thinks the n***ers's equal to the white man.

I read the book on not being explained to. That's called being an old colored woman, sir.

She never spoke about Jewish people as white. She spoke about them as Jews, which made them somehow different.

The only thing that's fair about me is the colour of my hair. People should remember that.

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard. ~Angel

When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.

They don't always use dwarfs, unfortunately. They shouldn't be allowed to do that! How dare they do 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and not have dwarfs!

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.

'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.