Institutionalized Discrimination Quotes

#1. Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.

Jim Yong Kim

#2. Mimosa did lose its first freshness too quickly to be worth buying and I must not allow myself to have feelings, but must only observe the effects of other people's.

Barbara Pym

#3. A government offering such bounty to builders and lenders could have required compliance with a nondiscrimination policy. Instead, the FHA adopted a racial policy that could well have been culled from the Nuremberg laws.

Charles Abrams

#4. Take control of your life..don't let the people in your life...take control of you!

Gwen Cannon

#5. Once a cucumber turns into a pickle, you can't turn it back into a cucumber. And I've been pickled by the internet for a long time.

Melissa Broder

#6. I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

Mike Thompson

#7. The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.

Pappy Boyington

#8. At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Ron Fournier

#9. See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.

Susan L. Taylor

#10. My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

Lianne La Havas

#11. I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Martina Hingis

#12. 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

#13. Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

Jay Kesler

#14. Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

John Dryden

#15. Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#16. I do not get to choose what she becomes just because I can't deal with who she is.

Veronica Roth

#17. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

Wayne Dyer

#18. And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics - and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.

Stefan Heym