Discrimination Quotes - Page 20

• I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a systematic and powerful and negative way to the people - great millions of people in the South, particularly, of America - I know that was wrong. I know we need to do better.

  Jeff Sessions

  Powerful, America, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has not ratified three main instruments, has not ratified the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, or the Convention on the Rights of the Child, or the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and we could have so much richer a debate and dialogue on international human rights standards if the superpower would sign up to the agenda.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Children, Rights

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Western Values, Race

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.

  Keith Ellison

  Cutting, Thinking, Issues

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thinking, Legacy, Lag

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.

  David B. Rivkin

  Religious, Rights, Champion

  "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.

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• The assumption that we can keep societies open and free to everybody is going to have to stop. We are going to have to recognize that some people simply are not qualified and do not want to belong a civil order. Until we begin to make discrimination along those lines, then I think we are going to be extremely vulnerable.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• Life is full of physical infirmities that some might see as discriminations - total paralysis or serious mental impairment being two that are relevant to marriage. If we believe in God and believe in His mercy and His justice, it won't do to say that these are discriminations because God wouldn't discriminate. We are in no condition to judge what discrimination is. We rest on our faith in God and our utmost assurance of His mercy and His love for all of His children.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Believe, Two

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to school; more than 90 percent reporting discrimination in the healthcare system; and 90 percent unemployed, and tell ourselves that we're doing a good job. The obstacles to leading a full life for the vast majority of people with intellectual disabilities are far beyond what they should be, and far beyond what we should tolerate. So yeah, I want change.

  Timothy Shriver

  Jobs, School, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.

  Simon Tam

  Football, Team, Writing

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Greatness, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We don't make determinations about who we love. And that's why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Thinking, Bases

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Teacher, Race, Law

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed too many transgressions. We didn't have the moral authority to lead anybody because we had too many injustices in our past and too many discriminations and too many thises and thats and so forth. We were not worthy of leading, and we had been leading for too long in all the wrong directions. It was really, I think, despicable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Past, Eight

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in the Catholic church, the sacrament of marriage is defined officially as the union of a man and a woman. So a Catholic adoption agency is torn between its faith doctrine and what it sees as a faith obligation to help orphans.

  Tom Gjelten

  Sex, Children, Couple

  "In Religious Freedom Debate, 2 American Values Clash". wbgo.org. February 28, 2017.

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• For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits. So many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives. It is viewed as "normal" in ghetto communities to go to prison or jail.

  Michelle Alexander

  Ghetto, Men, Jail

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Color, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Quiet, Fishes, Bigotry

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• our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.

  Lydia M. Child

  Government, Class, Ideas

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• If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.

  Mitsuye Yamada

  Teaching, Majority, Culture

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• All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!

  Clara Fraser

  Racism, Historical, Way

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• The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Two, Soul

  Aristotle (2015). “The Complete Aristotle”, p.1108, Booklassic

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• To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual,or transgender-let me say- you are not alone. You're struggle, for the end to violence and discrimination, is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call upon all countries and people, to stand with you too.A historic shift is underway. We must tackle the violence, decriminalize consensual same sex relationships and end discrimination. We must educate the public. I call on this council and people of conscience to make this happen.The time has come.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Sex, Struggle

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• When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

  Thomas Sowell

  Equal Treatment, People, Used

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