Quotes About Discrimination

I'm not super-easily offended, but it's a problem when someone's making you feel different or separate because of your race.

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

All labels are offensive in some way.

We are in a diversity age. I talk about the lack of diversity for black Americans, but what about the Asian Americans? You don't see them very often. They have a show called 'Fresh off the Boat.' No one is talking about that show. I saw it, and I found that show completely offensive, but I'm not Asian American.

I was fortunately always offered jobs because I was so pretty. Women used to complain about it!

It's harder in the States. I'm much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that's what they will consider you for.

I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain.

Personally, as an artiste, I never do any discrimination. If I am offered a 'Golmaal 4,' I'll run and do it.

Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana.

I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?

There was a young Black officer that I heard rumors that he had said stuff like, 'Oh I'll lock her down, I don't give a damn who she is.' I was so mad when he finally locked me down because it was for no reason.

I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

There has been some snobbishness, particularly among the much older generation. There's class and then there's the racial thing.

Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

There's some truth that roles for older women are harder to come by, but it's wrong for actors to monopolise the ageist thing.

That conversation about 'roles for women,' generally - 'roles for older women.' It's like, let's please not dig into that one any more, you know?

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.

Donald Trump's racism is of course an ongoing feature, not a bug.