Quotes About Discrimination

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

A right delayed is a right denied.

I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage.

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.

We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!

To walk into a casting room full of people who look like you is a crazy thing. What is the thing that necessitates all of us having the exact same shade of skin and having the same hair? What about this deodorant commercial needs that?

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

We live in a very classist society, and it's sad and depressing.

The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.

In India, when someone calls you sexy, they don't mean it as a compliment; it has derogatory connotations.

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description before.

I deserve to be paid the same as men.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.

Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.

The color of my skin should not determine whether I live or die.

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.

When I was 12, I was told I couldn't play with the boys anymore, and I was devastated.

There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.

The colour of my skin determines what opportunities I have; the colour of my skin says there's only room for one or two of us to be accepted in a certain job; the colour of my skin has dictated everything I've done in my whole life.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.