Quotes About Discrimination

You realize that gay-bashing is the IQ demarcation line of the subzero intellect?

Boys can't be stewardesses, and girls can't be pilots.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.

Here's a fact: I absolutely understand the humiliation of being stopped for no reason other than driving while black.

The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.

The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

People at the record labels were like, 'We don't want to sign you, you're girls' - sexist, ridiculous nonsense.

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.'

We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.

It's not fair that everybody has to be segregated.

As an African-American athlete, you get discouraged that this type of thing is still condoned in people's lives. You look at a situation where we're good enough to work for you, but not good enough to be around you. To build a franchise, good enough to build business for you, but not good enough to mingle amongst your circles.

I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says 'I was afraid' of a big black guy, that's enough to say, 'Okay, not guilty,' or, 'No indictment.' It's persisted over generations, and it needs to stop.

If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class citizen.

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

As a black person in this country, I am always frustrated by the lack of attention my people's issues get. But at least the news and politicians are talking about not talking about our issues. Native issues are basically ignored.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.