Quotes About Discrimination And Equality

#1. Continued reliance on preemption analysis suppresses judicial attention to the discrimination and equality concerns that should be motivating courts' consideration of subfederal immigration regulations.

Pratheepan Gulasekaram

#2. When we forget our essential similarities, we forget how to get along, and that cannot but lead to prejudice, discrimination, and eventually, conflict.

G. Norman Lippert

#3. My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

John Oliver Killens

#4. Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

Steven Pinker

#5. Gender empowerment doesn't mean discrimination, It only means equality.

Mohith Agadi

#6. Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.

Brad Pitt

#7. It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

DaShanne Stokes

#9. There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

Malala Yousafzai

#10. Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

Cordelia Fine

#11. At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

Carol Gilligan

#12. The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Eric Berne

#13. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Francois Cavanna

#14. If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

Michael Moore

#15. Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

Haruki Murakami

#16. The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.

Janelle Gray

#17. Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

Mansi Tejpal

#18. The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. Mistakes means miss placed priorities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. So, the scholars are tedious, the experts never see the whole truth of things, still they have their role to play.

Tom Robbins

#21. Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#22. If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

Mark Batterson

#23. What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has

David Simon

#24. Corporate Responsibility; Environmental Preservation; Consumer Protection; Sex & Race Discrimination (they must mean Sex and Race Liberation).

John Cage

#25. [On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

Pat Nixon

#26. You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.

Mary Deasy

#27. In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

Paul Martin

#28. [Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

Jay-Z

#29. 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

#30. Small streams of hatred can quickly lead to unstoppable, horrific things, so [people] should stand up to any type of persecution or discrimination, whether bullying or malicious gossip.

Susan Pollack

#31. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.

Malcolm X