Quotes About Discrimination

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I don't play with female gamers.

There is part of you as a female - no question - that feels like you have to be overprepared and outwork the men because people are automatically going to look at you and say, 'Well, you didn't play football,' or, 'You don't know what you're talking about,' because you are a female.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it.

I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

I certainly don't think we're past the point in history where a woman's physical appearance may play some part in job availability or job acquisition.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

No matter that you're a British citizen, no matter that you were born here - your skin colour means you do not have the same rights as others to express critical opinions about your own country.

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.