Discrimination quotes

“- Fly: It's only your first try. But you're treating them like equals. They're sheep, they're inferior.
- Babe: Oh, no, they're not.
- Fly: Of course they are. We are their masters, Babe. Let them doubt it for a second and they'll walk all over you!”

Miriam Margolyes - Fly
Christine Cavanaugh - Babe

“If your laws don't include me, well, then they don't apply to me either.”
Mary Stuart Masterson - Anita Crown

“I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“- J.J. Blodgett: We're appointing your father commercial attaché to the embassy in Rome, and that entitles him to all the rights and immunities of a diplomat.
- Wendell Armbruster: But wait a minute, we're going to appoint him...
- J.J. Blodgett: Why not?
- Wendell Armbruster: A dead man?
- J.J. Blodgett: Just proves that we don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Edward Andrews - J.J. Blodgett
Jack Lemmon - Wendell Armbruster, Jr.

“I’m arguing a case. Sex discrimination violates the Equal Protection principle.”
Felicity Jones - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“- Daxiat: This may sound strange coming from me, but I think your husband, Lucas Steiner, was wrong to leave France. The new anti-Israelite theater laws apply to spectators and profiteers. But your husband, Mme. Steiner, was a gem. He was the only Israelite theater director...
- Marion Steiner: You may say 'Jewish'.
- Daxiat: Yes. He was the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jean-Louis Richard - Daxiat
Catherine Deneuve - Marion Steiner

“I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian.”
Anthony Quinn

“Now listen here, you mullet. Why don't you just light your tampon, and blow your box apart? Because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart!”

Terence Stamp - Bernadette

“We give you a Jewish girl at five marks a day, Oskar. You should kiss us, not them. God forbid you ever get a real taste for Jewish skirt, there's no future in it. They don't have a future. That's not just good old fashioned Jew hating talk. It's policy now.”

Andrzej Seweryn - Julian Scherner

“There are no midgets in the United States Air Force.”
Burt Lancaster - Gen. Lawrence Dell

“- Dr. Rae Crane: You send me back on the basis of my gender. That's called sex discrimination. Look, I understand your reservations. I heard about your wife.
- Dr. Robert Campbell: My wife? Good God, she left me. I wish you'd follow her example.”
Lorraine Bracco - Dr. Rae Crane
Sir Sean Connery - Dr. Robert Campbell

“- Jerri: Some people have a problem with gays and lesbians.
- Candy: Yeah, well some people wear polyester.”
Joanne Vannicola - Jerri
Ruth Marshall - Candy

And I solemnly promise to never have sexual relations with a "Treblemaker", or may my vocal cords be ripped out by wolves.
Anna Camp - Aubrey

“- Counselor: People your age in the work force are usually considered real pains in the ass.
- Bridget Cardigan: Are you aware that statement is discriminatory and illegal?
- Counselor: See! And you don't even work for me.”
Denise Lee - Counselor
Diane Keaton - Bridget Cardigan

“- Harry Ross: People like you, think you are entitled to all the things that you have?
- Catherine Ames: Do you think people like me care so much about things? Maybe people like you shouldn't get close to people like me!”
Paul Newman - Harry Ross
Susan Sarandon - Catherine Ames

“It's a depressingly masculine world we live in, Dolores.”
Judy Parfitt - Vera Donovan

“I know how difficult it must be for you to overcome all those years of upper middle-class suburban oppression. Must be tough. But the next time you storm the PTA crusading for better lunch meat, or whatever it is you white girls complain about, ask them why they can't buy a book written by a black man!”

Daryl Mitchell - Mr. Morgan

“- Flan Kittredge: Why do you stay in South Africa?
- Geoffrey: One has to stay there. To educate the black workers. And we'll know we've been successful when they kill us.
- Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, goodness.
- Flan Kittredge: Planning the revolution that will destroy you.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan
Sir Ian McKellen - Geoffrey
Stockard Channing - Ouisa

“- Doralee Rhodes: You know... I just don't get it, Dwayne.
- Dwayne Rhodes: What's that, honey?
- Doralee Rhodes: I'm as nice as I know how to be to every single person in that office. Everyone treats me like a... bastard at a family reunion.”
Dolly Parton - Doralee Rhodes
Jeffrey Douglas Thomas - Dwayne Rhodes

“The Blackrobes want us to give up the dream. To have only one wife. To stop killing our enemies. If we obey them, we will no longer be Hurons. And soon our enemies will know our weakness and wipe us from the earth.”

“I want a girl to be on the cover of Surf magazine. It would be great if that girl were me, but any girl would do.”
Kate Bosworth - Anne Marie Chadwick

“- Itzhak Stern: By law I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew.
- Oskar Schindler: Well, I'm a German, so there we are.”
Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler

“Look at this place. Pathetic. It gets worse every day. The humans on the other side have a world full of resources. Ready for the taking. Imagine: an endless supply of food, clean air, water. And what are we stuck with? This... pithole, germs everywhere, fungus. For 65 million years, we've been exhiled here after the meteorite stuck while...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dennis Hopper - King Koopa

“This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.”
Denzel Washington - Joe Miller