“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.”— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org
“The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay.”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians! It's no different! It is the same thing! It is happening all over again! It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians! Wholesal…”— Pat Robertson, news.google.com
“We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“I support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994 because I believe that freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“The only thing that shocked most people in the film industry about the Harvey Weinstein story was that suddenly, for some reason, people seemed to care.”— Sarah Polley, nytimes.com
“Prejudices pit us against one another... One reason women compete so fiercely in the workplace is that it seems as if only a few positions are open to us. That’s not a too-many-women problem, it’s a too-few-slots-because-of-gender-and-racial-bias problem.”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“Society’s obsession with the way women look is less about beauty than about obedience to a punishing external standard — and power. When women compete to ‘stay young,’ we collude in our own disempowerment. When we rank other women by age, we reinforce ageism, sexism, lookism and patriarchy. What els…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“One thing we can all agree on, though? Aging is harder for women. We bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth and youth with power — the double-whammy of ageism and sexism. How do we cope? We splurge on anti-aging products. We fudge or lie about our age. We diet, we exercise, we get plump…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.”— Ellen Degeneres, quotes.lifehack.org
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com