Emily Deschanel Quotes

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

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.

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

I'm discriminated against all the time.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

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

I don't like being treated differently.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

They taught me different was wrong.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

Discrimination is the act of treating differently two persons or things, under like circumstances.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

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

In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.

What I hear from folks all the time is 'us against them.' It is a core part of what they feel is happening with our government. Investing here, but not there. Listening to some, but not nearly enough. Going into certain neighborhoods, but not others. That divide is something we have to categorically reject.

Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Discrimination is a disease.

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.

The world is still very bigoted.