Quotes About Discrimination

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made to diminish all other aspects of identity and only take your religious identity as who you are.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

Instead of moving backward, we should expand opportunity and protections by repealing hateful laws and passing comprehensive LGBT nondiscrimination laws at the local, state, and federal level.

Just passing laws saying you are not allowed to be racist won't work. You need an educational system in place.

I was a second class citizen before the zombies and I'm a second class citizen now.

On their way to the first session of the new Parliament, a group of Nazi deputies uniformed in brown celebrated by smashing department-store windows down the Leipzigerstrasse; 'by some odd chance,' a Jewish journalist noted in her diary, 'the casually aimed projectiles hit only non-Aryan targets.

Oh, Maureen. Don't be so naive. Everybody knows what it's like these days. The authorities bend over backward to help immigrants. You ought to know that, being in nursing. It's all opportunities for ethnics, not for decent, hardworking white folks.

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

Douglass, who often drew comparisons between Jews and blacks, noted that the "Jew is hated in Russia because he is thrifty," while in America the "Negro meets no resistance when on a downward course. It is only when he rises in wealth, intelligence and manly character that he brings upon himself the heavy hand of persecution.

a ban on a Coney Island attraction known as "Negro Ball Dodging," in which whites hurled baseballs at Black men's heads as they appeared in the openings of a cloth or wooden facade.

One reason the jobs men hold pay more is because they are more hazardous … Just as the 'glass ceiling' describes the invisible barrier that keeps women out of jobs with the most pay, the 'glass cellar' describes the invisible barrier that keeps men in jobs with the most hazards. – Warren Farrell

Beamish had seen the government as dominated by Jews, with Rufus Isaacs, Sir Alfred Mond and Edwin Montagu as Lloyd George's advisors; Britain was now ruled by a 'Jewalition' and Jews were responsible for a quarter of the war's casualties.

In case you've forgotten, that election made the hatred of Jews in this country socially respectable.

Je ne suis pas un nazi. Je suis un Allemand. Ce n'est pas la même chose. Un Allemand est un homme qui arrive à surmonter ses pires préjugés. Un nazi, quelqu'un qui les change en lois. (Hôtel Adlon - If The Dead Rise Not)

The United States has experienced analogous problems of concentration but has a much larger nonwhite population, African Americans

The clinical distrust of mothers, simply because they are women, the eagerness to bend over backwards to like fathers, simply because they are men is mind-numbing.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.