39 Movie Quotes about Discrimination (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Aug 15, 2025

Memorable quotes about discrimination, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 I do understand. There's nothing new about discrimination.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

12 You men enlisted in this regiment on the understanding that you would be paid the regular Army wage of $13 a month. This morning I have been notified that since you are a coloured regiment you will be paid $10 a month.

Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989)

13 There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

14 Is it possible? Yes, it is possible in this fine world we live in. Not only possible, but done. Done, see? Under that sky there, every day. It'll continue being done until the last of that accursed race has perished in the face of the earth.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

15 Fine laws! You land monkeys without a passport, and not human beings!

Paul Frees as Antoine in Utopia (1951)

16 The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit and hope and faith, only because they're of another race, another creed.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

17 You know what? You people, you make me sick! You see a Middle Easterner on an aircraft and you just assume that he's hatching some violent plot?

Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen in The Dictator (2012)

18 You stupid orphan! Nobody want a bald orphan!

Eddie Murphy as Hangten Wong in Norbit

19 A boy, he'd have a chance but in this section of the South where they're struggling' to throw us back into slavery... a girl!

Quote from Destination Freedom

20 Any institution should be ashamed to discriminate against any woman.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

39 Movie Quotes about Discrimination (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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