Bari Weiss Quotes

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

It bothers me so much that people have gone out of their way to make trans people feel less than.

Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

They taught me different was wrong.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender - and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.

The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for gender, race, or sexual orientation.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.