Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

Discrimination will impair democracy.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Remember, this is a country where even the non-Jews know they have no rights.

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

… the highest proof of civility is, that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number. Our Southern States have introduced confusion into the moral sentiments of their people, by reversing this rule in theory and practice, and denying a man's right to his labor.

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place.

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

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.

We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.

Only a straight white person would have no concept of what visibility is. They've never contended with anything but visibility.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.