Quotes About Discrimination

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

There's rampant sexism, of course there is! It just goes without saying. Every woman in the workplace knows this; [every woman] in the workplace has to work harder than a man to prove themselves.

You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it's over.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

I can say our strategy has always been and will continue to be getting our content in front of as many consumers around the globe as we can... AT&T has been an advocate of the tenets of no blocking, no discrimination, no paid prioritization.

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

When I see gay people holding hands or kissing in the streets, I just don't think that's right.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'

We all have responsibility to stop violence and discrimination against women, whether it's in our businesses, in our homes, or on our streets.

Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.

Racism is real; it exists here and now. You can find it on the streets, in your office, and in football stadiums.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

I've said this quite often, there was a certain stretch in my career where my gender held me back.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.