Discrimination Quotes

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

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

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

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.

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

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

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

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

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

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

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

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

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.

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.

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.

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

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.

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

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

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.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

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

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

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

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

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

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

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.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Tact is the discrimination of differences.
It consists in conscious deviations.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

If personal safety means discrimination, then I'm all for it.

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.