Discrimination Quotes

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.

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

It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

I'm against discrimination in all forms.

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.

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

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.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

Discrimination is a disease.

I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

"I'm a victim of sexual discrimination." "No, you're the victim of a cruel sexual experiment performed by your mother and father.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.