Quotes About Discrimination

America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.

Despite saying the letters 'LGBTQ' at the RNC, Donald Trump consistently endorsed anti-equality positions.

We haven't always been aware of it, but the 'locker-room bro talk' has long been going on not just in locker rooms but in some corporate conference rooms. Of course, not by all men. But by some - including some who hold positions of power. And that matters in holding women back.

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay.

You know the way it is: sometimes Americans think of us as their backward little cousin. It's the whole shamrock, potatoes, famine, leprechaun thing, all that drunken paddies rubbish.

I've experienced colorism in that way: where if you're lighter, then you'll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

I saw the things that my sister went through - she's dark skinned - with boys not considering her attractive in her youth and the pain that it caused her.

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

Some people write me off as a bit of a hick from an Essex council estate. I realize that. But I can read.

I have never been paid equally to my male counterparts, and it's mainly because of bankability.

Sexism is real in this country.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

It is not a shocker to me that a film went out of my hands, not because I was not credible, but because I was not so-and-so's daughter or sister or dating so-and-so.