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Quotes About Discrimination

Men got better with age, like wine. Women, on the other hand, were like cheese- aged was good to a degree, then came the mold and the inevitable casting aside.
~ Debra Webb
Call them gooks, call them niggers, call them kikes, micks, spics, wops, or frogs, call them whatever you want as long as you call them something—anything—that removes one layer of human being from their bodies when you think of them. That's the goal. If you can do that, you can get kids to cross oceans to kill other kids, or you can get them to stay right here at home and do the same thing.
~ Dennis Lehane
They didn't think black people were necessarily good, don't get me wrong, they just thought everyone—regardless of what color they were—was probably an asshole. And to say you were less of an asshole because your skin was lighter was reprehensible to them. It just made you a bigger asshole.
~ Dennis Lehane
One was a full-blooded Negro, the other mixed, with pale skin, thick lips and crinkly hair.
~ Unknown
I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser
~ Diana Gabaldon
STINKING PAPIST
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'm half English - and it has been highlighted by people who tell me that I'm not Asian enough.
~ Henry Golding
I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
~ John Cho
There is no moral equivalency between people who associate themselves with these KKK and Nazism and those who are opposed to individuals who associate themselves with the KKK and Nazism.
~ Lee Zeldin
For a lot of Croats, if you're a Serb, they don't want to associate with you. It's just stupid.
~ Vlade Divac
It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
~ Colin Kaepernick
I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.
~ Caster Semenya
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
~ Karen DeCrow
I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'
~ Frankie Faison
That doll looks more like a black man than me.
~ Lorrie Fair
President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.
~ Mo Farah
I think Donald Trump is a racist.
~ Ed Schultz
I am everything Donald Trump is against.
~ Kevin Abstract
Donald Trump is a bigot.
~ Shaun King
I think Donald Trump might be racist.
~ Sarah Cooper
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.
~ Geena Davis
Why is it when we see a white guy, we automatically think, 'Let's turn this dude into a star?'
~ Lexi Alexander
As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.
~ Malik Yoba