Quotes About Discrimination

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

I do think that being a BAME actor does make it difficult to avoid stereotypes.

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

As soon as you start looking into roles which are specifically Asian, Black, or Latina, you start looking at stereotypes. That's the issue minority actors face - it's not that we don't want to play our ethnicities; it's that, often, the role that's written for our ethnicity is a stereotype.

I guess I can be stereotypical and say that Asians are very cheap.

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

The reality of it is there is still a massive stigma against Australian coaches and where we come from and I dont think that has changed or will necessarily change very quickly.

We live in a fear-based world where HIV stigma can prevail.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Over the years, as I lived in low-income housing, collected government assistance, and lived well under the poverty level as I put myself through college, the comments people made about poor people started to sting. The poor are dirty. Hoarders. Their houses are a mess. Their kids are wild, untamed, and feral-looking.