Quotes About Discrimination

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.

Politicians are dividing us based on caste lines.

I've been turned down for a lot of TV because they didn't think there was a place for Divine on television.

At the end of the day, makeup comes off whether you're a man or a woman; why discriminate against men, when makeup is such an amazing form of artistic expression, just because society says it's not 'normal?'

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I had a funny last name, and I didn't look like everybody else, and I got faced with a lot of racism.

What I would say is that if someone faces discrimination, they should never back down. They should be self-confident and educate others not to have such an attitude.

Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem.

As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Race is a factor in everything.

We need autocracies and failing democracies alike to understand that they cannot scapegoat LGBT citizens to distract from their own shortcomings.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

Basic fairness and equity demand that the color of your collar should not dictate if you receive a bail-out or get bailed on.

The fact that Australia is falling so far behind on something so simple as equal love and equal rights for equal love is disgusting, it's embarrassing.

Age is definitely an issue for women in TV. There comes a point - especially if you're a woman - when your career just falls off a cliff. I'm not being self-pitying. That's just the way it is.

Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.