Charlie Sifford Quotes

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

The world is still very bigoted.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

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

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

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.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

Discrimination is not just an ugly stain from this nation’s past. It’s still the reality of the present.

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

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.

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.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.