Discrimination Quotes - Page 5

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

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Capacity, Hypothesis, Fine

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

  Joe Biden

  Rights, Issues, Transgender

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• I am a father and I know the feel of being a father, why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents? Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination and I want them to know that I'm on their side.

  Juan Pablo Galavis

  Children, Father, Gay

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• The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

  Pope John XXIII

  Men, Racism, Dignity

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• Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

  Mary Kissel

  Diversity, Quota, Definitions

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

  Bill Gates

  Minorities, Legs, Layers

  "Bill Gates invites us all to read Jared Diamond's The World Until Yesterday" by Liz Bury, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• You shouldn't face discrimination because of your sexual orientation. That should be illegal.

  Tom Gjelten

  Faces, Should, Illegal

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

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• I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

  Joe Biden

  Running, Real, Roots

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

  Anita Hill

  Equal Treatment, Special, Injustice

  Anita Hill (2011). “Speaking Truth to Power”, p.340, Anchor

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• The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

  Gordon Parks

  Powerful, Racism, Cameras

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• I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Issues, Racism, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

  Ellen Page

  Inequality, Perpetuating, Ifs

  "Ellen Page and Ian Daniel on Creating Gaycation, the State of LGBT Rights in Other Countries, and Watching a Son Come Out to His Mother". Interview with John Horn, www.vulture.com. March 25, 2016.

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• Here they are today, the Democrats; they're making this big deal about how this woman [Hillary Clinton] has overcome all of this discrimination. She has overcome the biggest guns of opposition that have been arrayed against her!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gun, Overcoming, Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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