Quotes About Discrimination

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

As a gay man, there are certain places that I avoid. When I go to China, I lie and pretend I'm not married, which is really sad - I leave my ring at home. But I'm not willing to risk my safety in a country that could cause me no end of problems or where it's illegal to be gay. I'm very aware of the places I can travel to safely and where I cannot.

To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

Big Data is neither color-blind nor gender-blind. We can see how it is used in marketing to segment people.

The fear isn't that big data discriminates. We already know that it does. It's that you don't know if you've been discriminated against.

We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.

I could be completely mad and sound like David Icke, but I just find people with blue eyes colder, less passionate, and more calculated people.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

I've dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.

Equal rights should not be debatable and certainly should not be put to a vote of the people. Would we ask the electorate to vote on whether or not Catholics and Protestants should marry? Of course we would not.

For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.'

I want to live in a society where everyone is treated equally and not defined by their race.

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.