Discrimination Quotes

• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 04, 2014

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Time, Racism, Racial Discrimination

  Jimmy Carter (2016). “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

  Barbra Streisand

  Time, Law, Racism

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  Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

  Lester Maddox

  Freedom, Opportunity, Greatness

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• 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

  Forever, Atmosphere, Left

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• 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

  Race, Different, Quiet

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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  Olympia Snowe

  Progress, Fields, Needs

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• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Personal Opinions, Perception

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics

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• The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Leadership, Social, Position

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

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Individual

  "Biographical" by Joseph Stiglitz for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Capacity, Hypothesis, Fine

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• 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

  Racism, Different, States

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• 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

  People, Way, Things Change

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• The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination

  Anita Hill

  Sex, Race, Fbi

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

  Lionel Blue

  Comeback, Insult, Luther

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• 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.

  Albert Maltz

  Writing, College, Lynching

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  Opportunity, Long, Sound

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.10, Book Tree

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• It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Religious, Views

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• 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

  Black, Oppression, Economic

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

  Olympia Snowe

  Respect, Years, Issues

  "The Situation: Tuesday, August 16" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com.

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