Discrimination Quotes
Discrimination Quote of the day
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.
Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.