Discrimination Quotes

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

If personal safety means discrimination, then I'm all for it.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.