Discrimination Quotes - Page 27

• No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.

  Barack Obama

  Country

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Views, Should Have

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

  Barack Obama

  Patriotic, Rejects

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen, whether it is - you hope this doesn't exist any longer - but overt discrimination; whether it's subtle gender discrimination, which absolutely does exist among men and women; whether it's the fact that it gets hard to juggle at that point children, housework, etc. But people still have to go home and cook the dinner and clean the dishes and get the beds made and so on. And so, for a whole bunch of reasons, women tend to fall out in their 30s still today.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Children, Fall, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Freedom, Mean, Political

  "Countries failing to protect women online, says report" by Alex Hern, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2014.

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• We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.

  Barbara Warren

  Health, Issues, People

  "Experts Sound off On Why LGBT Health Concerns Need Special Attention" by Andrew M. Seaman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Pain, Heart, Racism

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• In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Art, Sex

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• Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

  Richard Simmons

  Men, Letters, Overweight

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• Times are changing and women need the critical stimulus of competition outside the home. A girl must nowadays believe completely in herself as an individual. She must realize at the outset that a woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it. She must be aware of the various discriminations , both legal and traditional, against women in the business world.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Jobs, Believe

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• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Unjust Society

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  People, Prejudice, Disgrace

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• I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!

  Zoe Saldana

  Racism, Hollywood, Wanted

  "One on One: Zoe Saldana". L.A. Focus Newspaper Interview, lafocusnewspaper.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I experienced firsthand not only the mental and physical damage being unhealthy does to a person, but I also recognized the discrimination many overweight people faced because of their public image. And I, like everyone else, is susceptible to falling into negative patterns that can cause weight gain.

  Maria Kang

  Fall, People, Patterns

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• Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.

  Newt Gingrich

  Government, Support, Principles

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• Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Defense, Bombs

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• Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Girl, Korea, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Breaking Down, Mainstream, Polish

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Korea, Issues, Feminism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Country, Sex, Opportunity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Teacher, Jobs, School

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Poor, Unfair, Conviction

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

  Clarence Thomas

  Years, Illegal, Court

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• Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

  Henry James

  Dog, Art, Confusion

  The Spoils of Poynton preface (1909)

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• 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

  Self, Healthy, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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