Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Douglas

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

Susan B. Anthony

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Don Cornelius

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Chinua Achebe

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Charlotte Bunch

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Elie Wiesel

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

Agnes Varda

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Brady Corbet

I look pretty different. Luckily for me, I don't get harassed or anything like that.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Devon Sawa

One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way--in a big way.

David Selby

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

David Mitchell

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

David Crystal

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

David Sanborn

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Bryan Stevenson

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Brandon Marshall

I'm against discrimination in all forms.

Elizabeth I

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Ambrose Bierce

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

Emily Saliers

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Rajneesh

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

Gloria Steinem

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

George Orwell

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.