Sol Campbell Quotes

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

I've been fortunate in my career, but, yes, there have been many times when I have been told my audition has been cancelled because they're only going to see white people.

We have a fair amount of racism.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

The Declaration of Independence was written by white men for white men.

When you live in a world in which juveniles are much more likely to be stopped—or if stopped, be arrested, or if arrested, be adjudicated—if they are Black, then all of the indicators associated with prior criminal history are going to be serving effectively as a proxy for race.

If a white man says, "give me liberty or give me death" in any country, white men all over the world stand up and applaud. But if a black man says the same thing--the exact same words--he is created like a dangerous criminal.

When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal with, but we do. It's a double standard. We can't cover our head when it's cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn't even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has a white girlfriend or a white cousin or whatever.'

I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.