Quotes About Discrimination

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.

A Latino actor can't play this and a Latino actor can't play that because they're Latino.

I've been harassed by police my whole life and seen people who looked like me treated like animals at the hands of law enforcement.

I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional or managerial role.

You shouldn't have to accept being seen as lesser or discriminated against because of your skin.

Let us end 'don't ask, don't tell.'

It's one thing to be prejudiced. It's another to be a liar.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

Listen, it's crazy because I almost have to work twice as hard to get the amount of attention as it is for somebody who's a little lighter than me or from a different country than me, you know?

In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are. They think beauty has to do with being light-skinned. I think that's really wrong.

There are not very many opportunities for little people in the industry. There are small parts and character parts, but we don't get the girl-at-the-end-of-the-film kind of parts... but I was quite happy with what I was doing.

We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

It's one thing to evaluate a woman's work. it's another thing to say, 'Your hair was this; your makeup was that.'

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

I know what it feels like to be paid less - substantially less - than the male lawyer in the office next to me.

Some males who want to become teachers even want to wear dresses to work and flaunt their homosexuality in front of my children.

A white manager loses his job and gets another job, he loses his job, he gets another job. Very few black managers can lose their job and get another job.

Young English managers don't get enough time, young black managers aren't given enough time, there are a lot of reasons why.

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

Women do not count," said the Sultan. "Therefore, it is impossible to be unfair to them.

She thought briefly of one police force in a neighboring state, some years back, which without a second thought had for many years classified people murdered in its jurisdiction as "male victim," "female victim," and "prostitute.