Discrimination famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.
-- Adam Fletcher -
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
-- Ally Sheedy -
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination
-- Anita Hill -
No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.
-- Barack Obama -
Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.
-- Barack Obama -
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
-- Betty Friedan -
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
-- Bob Black -
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.
-- Bruce Hornsby -
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
-- Carl Lewis -
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.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
-- Charlotte Bunch -
The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.
-- Christine Gregoire -
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
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.
-- Clarence Thomas -
Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.
-- David Hilbert -
I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.
-- David Hilbert -
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
-- Eddie Bernice Johnson -
I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
-- Edward Kennedy -
In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.
-- Evan Sayet -
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.
-- Gary L. Francione -
Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.
-- George Orwell -
the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
-- Hannah More -
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.
-- Harriet Martineau -
Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be.
-- Jan Brewer -
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.
-- Jean Baker Miller -
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.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard -
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
-- Jimmy Carter -
Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time
-- Joe Biden -
I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.
-- John Diefenbaker -
I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
-- John Hume -
I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
-- Joseph Stiglitz -
I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
-- Josephine Baker -
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
-- Kate Millett -
Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination,
-- Kim Gandy -
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
-- Lionel Blue -
It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.
-- Maggie Gallagher -
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
-- Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
-- Marian Wright Edelman -
Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
-- Nancy Lublin -
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.
-- Neil Abercrombie -
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
-- Oliver Tambo -
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
-- Pat Buchanan -
I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
-- Patrick J. Kennedy -
The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.
-- Phillip Lopate -
The single most instinctive evil is discrimination
-- Rahul Bose -
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.
-- Ray Stannard Baker -
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.
-- Rene Cassin -
Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
-- Richard Dawkins -
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
-- Rita Mae Brown -
An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.
-- Shelley Berkley -
I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.
-- Shirley Chisholm -
I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.
-- Terry Pratchett -
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.
-- Thomas Cole -
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
-- Thurgood Marshall -
Discrimination , in all its forms, is bad for business.
-- Tim Cook -
Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.
-- Trent Lott -
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.
-- Trevor Phillips -
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'.
-- Will Self -
I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
-- Wilma Mankiller -
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
-- Zainab Salbi -
The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?
-- Andrea Leadsom -
Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.
-- Cathy O'Neil -
I think that in the diaspora, and among immigrants, religion becomes a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information, and cultural codes, and this does end up re-inscribing certain things about the religion - like caste. Caste discrimination and hierarchy are still a very fundamental and violent part of Hinduism. My family was upper caste, and that was very clear. I feel like caste and religious practice are inextricable, actually.
-- Chitra Ganesh -
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
-- David Ansen -
Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.
-- Glenn Loury -
What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular.
-- Jumaane Williams -
Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.
-- Kim Hyesoon -
It's through neglecting all other values to bring the customer the lowest price that Wal-Mart ended up with such a horrible sex discrimination problem, but that model produces lots and lots of other problems as well, which I think are possibly going to be more difficult to fix.
-- Liza Featherstone -
There is age discrimination, but I think there are two kinds. One is when the employer is discriminating for specific reasons and doing it intentionally. The other is where you have managers who really aren't looking to discriminate but feel a little on edge because the candidate they're talking to is older. Sometimes they can even smell age concern on the part of the candidate and they wind up discriminating almost unconsciously.
-- Nick Corcodilos -
We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.
-- Niki Ashton -
There is an issue about the discrimination provisions because the Qur'an does say that women should have half the share of men. Again, in the seventh century perhaps that kind of made sense, but in the twenty-first it very often doesn't. But in the arbitration contract that won't arise. An inheritance dispute might arise after someone dies but the two sides have to come together consensually.
-- Sadakat Kadri -
Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and well in the Big Apple.
-- Solly Granatstein -
You shouldn't face discrimination because of your sexual orientation. That should be illegal.
-- Tom Gjelten -
I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination - the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination.
-- Alison Rosen -
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.
-- Amira Hass -
I'm against discrimination in all forms.
-- Brandon Marshall -
To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
-- Ronald Firbank -
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
-- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -
Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.
-- Ryan White -
When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.
-- Samuel Alito -
"I'm a victim of sexual discrimination." "No, you're the victim of a cruel sexual experiment performed by your mother and father.
-- Harry Enfield -
We have come a long way, particularly in terms of women becoming more equal under the law. Fortunately, workplace discrimination is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, sexual harassment is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, the assault of women is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. The list goes on.
-- Tara Moss -
If personal safety means discrimination, then I'm all for it.
-- Janet Parshall
