Quotes About Discrimination

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.

I have no prejudice against the gays, but I wouldn't train with someone who's gay.

Making our communities safer for all Americans, combatting longstanding prejudices, and ending discrimination should be issues where we can find common ground.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Prejudices save time.

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

Look to the Premier League. Are there any black managers? Look at the Italian league? Are there any black managers? The list goes on.

It's very difficult, but if I'm talking from my personal view and what I do as a job, which is playing football, how the Premier League and football handles racism should be with great severity because there's no place for it in the world.

I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.

I don't want folks with pre-existing medical conditions - like asthma and diabetes - to be denied health care. I sure don't want to see our grandparents paying more for prescription drugs and women paying more just because of their gender.

What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.

Anti-Semitism was a constant presence in the campaign after it became known I was Jewish.

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated.

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but often less, obvious forms - and do everything possible to defeat that discrimination.