Alan Sugar Quotes

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

If he presents himself to vote, he runs a risk to his life. Oppressed, he can complain, but if he finds only whites among his judges… His son is excluded from the school where the descendants of Europeans come to be instructed. In theaters he cannot buy for the price of gold the right to be placed at the side of one who was his master; in hospitals he lies apart. The black is permitted to beseech the same God as whites, but not to pray to him at the same alter.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail…unlike is normally situated at a safe distance.

Segregation is not exclusion.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

Society is better off without certain people.

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

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

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

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

You send missionaries among us to teach us your ways, and when we do so, we meet immovable discrimination.