Discrimination Quotes - Page 10

• A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Tasks, Cynicism

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.250, tredition

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• Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

  George Orwell

  Colour, Instance, Ought

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe.

  Ramakrishna

  Two, Firsts, Kind

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• 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.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Principles, Abiding, Patents

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.31, M.E. Sharpe

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• Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Numbers, Safety

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

  Edward Kennedy

  Favors, Bases, Access

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• I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

  George Washington

  Party, Views, Spirit

  George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.15

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• anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

  Gloria Steinem

  Nurse, Racism, Black

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

  Zainab Salbi

  Willing, Ifs

  "Women Lean in Worldwide" by Zainab Salbi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2013.

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• Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

  Nancy Lublin

  Love Is, Choices, Kind

  "How The Gays Can Save Us" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.

  Ashley Montagu

  Race, Racism, Feminist

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• The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Mind, Intellectual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.76, Psychology Press

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• Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sex, Philosophy, Rights

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• So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Law, Issues

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• Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.

  Gwen Ifill

  Gay, Levels, Messages

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Reality, Rights, Texas

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law" By Braden Goyette, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2014.

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• 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.

  Bob Herbert

  Education, School, Reality

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• ... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Sex, Opportunity, Men

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• Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.

  Vivian Gornick

  Giving Up, Pain, Fear

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• In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

  Frank Bruni

  People, Perfect, Together

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• Once Indians become more visible in pop culture and thus more humanized, then it actually chips away at discrimination. Especially after 9/11, it became important for those stories and that human element, for the Muslim, the Hindu, the Sheikh communities to be heard. That's what I hope I get at with the music.

  Himanshu Suri

  Community, Important, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Skin Color, People, Skins

  "It’s Time for Pakistan to Face Its Terrorism Menace — And Stop Blaming the Usual Easy Targets" by Farheen Rizvi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2015.

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• Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.

  Howard Zinn

  Government, Order, White

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

  Gloria Steinem

  Racism, Hierarchy, Problem

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem". Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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