Discrimination Quotes - Page 29

• The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States is alive and well.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Men, Cities

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• We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

  Ai Weiwei

  War, Expression, Ignorant

  "Why I'll Stay Away From the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics". www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.

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• We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.

  Satish Kumar

  Fear, Thinking, Animal

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• Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Punishment, Unjust, Administration

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• It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.

  Royal Cortissoz

  Crush, Dirty, Blow

  Royal Cortissoz (1916). “Art and common sense”

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• There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.

  Hun Sen

  Country, Gay, Destiny

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• Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

  Ellen Goodman

  Math, Two, Long

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Struggle, People, Individuality

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• Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Groups, Way, Oppression

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• Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, Poverty, Oppression

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand encounters, so the difference in strength between men and women is no longer worth elaboration in cultural institutions.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Hands, Differences

  Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

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• There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

  Agnes Repplier

  Appreciate, Literature, Wordsworth

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• Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Humanity, Faces

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• the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

  Hannah More

  Men, Class, Produce

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.268

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• Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

  Sara Coleridge

  Religious, Flames, Fire

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260

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• While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Men, Wizards

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.156, tredition

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• A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

  Freya Stark

  Notebook, Pain, Journey

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.137, I.B.Tauris

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• But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

  Jane Addams

  Years, People, Population

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.224, Open Road Media

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• There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Racism, Levels, Oppression

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• Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem. The possibility of discovery is everywhere. Freedom from your own work allows for intuition that draws from all your experience and perception but goes beyond it.

  Paul Caponigro

  Discovery, Perception, Intuition

  Paul Caponigro (1972). “Paul Caponigro”

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• To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Party, Equality

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• I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Saws, Injury

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.8

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• Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

  Elizabeth I

  Lord, Inequality, Treated

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• Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

  Kate Millett

  Proof, Conditioning, Found

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.55, Columbia University Press

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• The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

  Quentin Bryce

  Opportunity, Talking, Goal

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