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• All the help that comes to us is form the Holy Spirit, whether it comes in a dream or through the help of a friend or doctor. The trick is the discrimination you need: to tell what's good for you and what's not good for you. This comes by listening to your heart.

  Harold Klemp

  Dream, Spiritual, Heart

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• Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination.

  Kim Gandy

  Equal Treatment, Filing, Lawsuit

  "Females win fight for political power" by Thom Patterson, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2004.

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• The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and for a war that makes no sense. A war that was based on faulty intelligence. That's all they ever talk about. That and immigration. Another discriminatory argument for political gain.

  Charles Barkley

  Running, War, Mean

  "Charles Barkley: John Mellencamp right, 'Conservative means discriminatory'" by Chris Baldwin, www.travelgolf.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

  Coretta Scott King

  Mother, Children, School

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• Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Insecurity, Income

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• We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts based on poverty, discrimination and exclusion (social, economic and political) that continue to plague humanity and destroy decades of development efforts. The vicious circle of human rights violations that lead to conflicts-which in turn lead to more violations-must be broken. I believe we can break it only by ensuring respect for all human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Believe, Rights, Circles

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• I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Women, Believe

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• Gay adoption is discrimination against children

  Pope Francis

  Children, Gay, Adoption

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• What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.

  Jay-Z

  Home, Gay, Simple

  "Jay-Z still has Obama's back". politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. May 14, 2012.

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• I'm really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it's their own business ... Because as a Black man, I think you've got to be against any form of discrimination.

  Charles Barkley

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.

  Christine Gregoire

  Government, Sexuality, Should

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• Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.

  Julian Bond

  Gay, Rights, America

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• The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.

  James Madison

  Real, Differences, Southern

  Wendell Phillips, James Madison, American Anti-Slavery Society (1856). “The Constitution a pro-slavery compact, or, Extracts from the Madison papers, etc”, p.35

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• Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and 'there's too much legislation already...'. In no case has this line of reasoning ever been sustained.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Addresses, Lines

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• To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Mother, Daughter, Law

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• A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature, towards enlightenment. Of course once you are enlightened, you have gone beyond the discrimination of sexes. Beyond enlightenment, you are simply human beings. But before that... Be proud of your qualities. Increase them, refine them because they are the path towards godliness. Man is not in a better position than woman as far as religious experience is concerned.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Sex, Men

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• In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.

  Bob Hawke

  Leadership, Facts, Prejudice

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• We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know, I grew up, born on a government blanket under a palm tree. I lived under lantana bushes, I've seen more dinner times than I've seen dinners, I've known discrimination, I've known prejudice, I've known all of those things... but some of that is still with us... and it's got to be changed.

  Neville Bonner

  Change, Leadership, Fighting

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• We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

  Paul Keating

  Leadership, Mother, Children

  "Keating speech still powerful 25 years on". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 8, 2017.

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• My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Father, Writing, Organization

  Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.

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• Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War II, they were aggressively excluded from neighborhoods, jobs, and homes - not because of their skin color, but their accents.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Jobs, War

  "Web Extra: Read an Exclusive Excerpt of Ann Coulter's New Book", abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2012.

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• Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

  P. D. James

  Writing, Bad Writing, Contagious

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Worry, Evolution

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• Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Reflection, Absorption

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