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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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• I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

  Robert Burns

  Friendship, Laughter, Please Me

  Robert Burns (1825). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Letters, Songs, His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: with an Essay on His Life, Genius, and Character [signed: J. B.]. MS. Notes”, p.440

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• The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

  Trevor Phillips

  Christian, Religious, Victim

  "Christians are more militant than Muslims, says Government's equalities boss". Interview with Jonathan Wynne-Jones, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 18, 2011.

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• Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Life, Dirty, Boys

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

  John Hume

  Example, Grew Up, Worst

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

  Ryan White

  Education, Lying, Hiv

  "The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945" by Steven M. Gillon, (p. 322), January 1, 2012.

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• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize

  Warren Farrell

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Reality, Doe, Made

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Peace, Responsibility, Racism

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• I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Running, Indian

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• There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

  Lou Gehrig

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sex, Simple, Equal Pay

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.23, Best Books on

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• Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Teaching, Gay

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• Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

  Bill Watterson

  Girl, Sex, Fun

  "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, September 1988.

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• After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.

  Tim Johnson

  Religious, Government, Views

  "Then there were 3: The Democratic holdouts on same-sex marriage" by Lindsey Boerma, www.cbsnews.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Racism, Slavery

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.51, Random House

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• I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Sex, Racist, Unions

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• I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, Home, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1963*). “We Accuse: The Trial of Nelson Mandela”

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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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• There is age discrimination, but I think there are two kinds. One is when the employer is discriminating for specific reasons and doing it intentionally. The other is where you have managers who really aren't looking to discriminate but feel a little on edge because the candidate they're talking to is older. Sometimes they can even smell age concern on the part of the candidate and they wind up discriminating almost unconsciously.

  Nick Corcodilos

  Thinking, Age, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.

  Horace Mann

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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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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