Quotes About Discrimination

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

You're not tapping into the widest possible pool of talent if you're shutting some people out of particular careers.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

Isn't it wrong to target and brand an entire state in a poor light?

Once you start crossing over and displaying feminine ways, you're a target. It's sad, it's humiliating, and it's confusing.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?

It is the women who get targeted because the society will point fingers at them.

LGBTQ people are still targeted by hate that lives in both laws and in hearts.

I couldn't reconcile being a progressive feminist with being the mother of a male: advocating for policies that discriminated against him and targeted him simply for his sex, advocating an ideology that was a direct contradiction to my role as a mother to protect and nurture my child.

Most of the attacks, most of the online hate that I've received has really been targeted at my Jewish identity.

The truth is that Asian people have been targeted and discriminated against for far, far longer than COVID has been around.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don't have money.

Nominally left- and right-wing populists differ primarily in their choice of which 'others' to exclude and attack, with the former singling out big corporations and oligarchs, and the latter targeting ethnic or religious minorities.

If stop-and-frisk was a fair and balanced practice that targeted everybody equally across the board, then I could understand the extra precautions being taken, but since it's a practice that targets blacks and Hispanics and gives the police the right to lawfully profile us, I'm not with it.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

We are saying that when our nation targets law enforcement efforts at someone's appearance or what neighborhood they live in or what job they do, it is not living up to our nation's basic ideals.

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

I've gotten stopped for reckless eyeballing, for staring too hard. These officers think they're Tarzan and this is a jungle, that all the animals need to be tamed.

When slavery was over, those atrocities that were done by slave owners was passed over to law enforcement, and law enforcement took up that task.

We have a bipartisan congressional task force against anti-Semitism, that's fantastic.

Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.