Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes

I've certainly experienced being treated not as an equal.

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

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

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

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

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.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

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

You know, anytime you take one group and you blame them for a problem, there is an issue.

I recognise that, while I was fortunate enough to grow up without any discrimination or stigma attached at all, other people haven't been so lucky.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

I'm discriminated against all the time.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

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.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

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.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

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.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.