Quotes About Discrimination

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.

With my social media posts on fairness creams, I felt really strongly that I needed to speak up about it because I think we can take baby steps. Colour and caste is engrained in our culture, but I don't think it should be applauded or packaged and sold.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

I know from the stories of my grandparents and great-grandparents the real struggles and discrimination that Italian Americans faced when they first immigrated to America.

There are less opportunities for women.

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

Access to equal opportunity should not be constrained by zip-code.

I oppose discrimination against homosexuals, but I do not support them, either.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

Gays are the molecular opposites of blacks.

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.