Adam Rippon Quotes

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

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

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.

They taught me different was wrong.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

That's a good thing; that's a damn good thing. We can use that to keep the niggers in their place.

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.

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.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

'Those people' is a bad word.

Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

Discriminatory legislation emboldens those who seek to make us afraid while giving those communities it hurts a concrete reason to fear. We must stay away from anti-immigrant legislation as well as so-called religious freedom legislation that harms our LGBTQ communities.

LGBTQ people are still targeted by hate that lives in both laws and in hearts.

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

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.

Racial events in our game, which we are trying as hard as we can to eradicate, are always going to happen. You hope that it is something that doesn't escalate. Sometimes when times are harder they become more prevalent.

I've been told that I can't do things simply because I was trans.

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

Has there ever been a crisper expression of the consequences of 'intersectionality' than a ban on Jewish lesbians from a Dyke March?

Discrimination will impair democracy.