Quotes About Discrimination

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

Many elected Republicans know that ensuring that people of color can vote freely would spell bad news for them and their agenda, which privileges corporations and the wealthy.

Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.

There are cis women who are being attacked and called men because they are wearing makeup and because they are too tall, and they might have an Adam's apple. Once cis women start to realize it's not just harmful to trans women, then we'll start to come together more and attack this together. It sucks, but we're all under the patriarchy.

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.

It was hard knowing that you walk into a store sometimes, and you're wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie and some baggy jeans, or your skin is a little darker, and the clerk is just staring at you a little bit harder. The cops treat you a little differently.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

'I Am Singh' underlines the fact that every guy who wears a turban is not an Osama Bin Laden.

When a young male MP wears jeans and t-shirt no one objects, but they have a problem if a woman does the same.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

The Internet is the most democratic communication platform in history, largely because we've had network neutrality rules that make sure all web traffic is treated equally, and no voices are discriminated against.

I've lost count of the number of websites that try to 'out' every Muslim in public life as an extremist or Islamist of some shape or form.

It's troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.

Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why call it integration when black folks do the same thing? It's a con job.

I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.

The police or any higher authority should never try and criminalise people for their sexuality. It is something that is to great extent given by God.

As a flight instructor 30 years ago, I had quite a few female police officers who wanted to be pilots. But the guys would say 'no.' They wanted those jobs to themselves.

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.