Top 100 Quotes About Discrimination
#1. (F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.
Walter E. Williams
#2. 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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#3. The Negro's economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#4. We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.
Bryan Stevenson
#5. The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
John Lewis
#6. Gay adoption is discrimination against children
Pope Francis
#7. How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not
necessary to safeguard us from discrimination
Barbra Streisand
#8. Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
Maajid Nawaz
#9. I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
H.P. Lovecraft
#10. [T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields.
[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)]
United Nations
#11. I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.
Rocco Buttiglione
#12. Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
Bill Gates
#13. If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
James D. Watson
#14. 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
#15. I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.
Malcolm X
#16. Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
Bob Black
#17. 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
#18. They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
Bella Abzug
#19. With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
Nicholas A. Basbanes
#20. If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. Dogmatic kind of biblical literalism that gained increasing strength among evangelicals toward the end of the nineteenth century was reduced space for academic debate, intellectual experimentation, and nuanced discrimination between shades of opinion.
Mark A. Noll
#22. Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
Ramakrishna
#23. This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.
Buck McKeon
#24. The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
Adora Svitak
#25. You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.
Charles Dudley Warner
#26. If personal safety means discrimination, then I'm all for it.
Janet Parshall
#27. ... it's not possible to truly become desensitized or accustomed to discrimination. It's something one endures.
Mary Lindsey
#28. 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
#30. The single most instinctive evil is discrimination
Rahul Bose
#31. If I start talking about my own hopes, it'll take hours. The biggest hope is that there's not any more discrimination between men and women. That women could have equal rights. It's very painful when you see in your family that a brother can do anything he wants, but at the same age, you can't.
Malina Suliman
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination,
Kim Gandy
#35. It seemed nice. They all seemed nice. I had no framework for discrimination.
Graeme Simsion
#36. Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.
Frantz Fanon
#37. There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.
Hun Sen
#38. Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.
Gordon Parks
#42. Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.
Shirin Ebadi
#43. God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.
F.F. Bruce
#44. Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin
Bill Watterson
#45. Dreams are one treasure that God has bestowed on everyone without any discrimination.
Jyoti Arora
#46. Thurgood Marshall because of his experience of discrimination did bring a special perspective to the court. That's what his colleagues on the court so valued him for as all the tributes pouring in after his retirement attested.
Deborah Rhode
#47. I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.
David Hilbert
#48. The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.
Rene Cassin
#49. If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.
Kim Hyesoon
#50. Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't feel it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. (regarding prejudice and discrimination)
Marian Anderson
#51. Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices are treated as second class forms of speech and singled out for discrimination.
Mathew Staver
#52. Now that's discrimination - when you look down your nose at the very men who fought to make sure you could still go to work in your tidy, warm office. That's the trouble with people - they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.
Jacqueline Winspear
#53. I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
Wilma Mankiller
#54. If you believe in democracy, are you not thereby obliged to accept, without discrimination, the fall-outs that come with a democratic choice, even if this means the termination of the democratic process itself?
Wole Soyinka
#55. To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
Ronald Firbank
#56. In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job: in 15 years on the bench, not one.
Edward Kennedy
#57. Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
Ally Sheedy
#58. I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.
John Diefenbaker
#59. The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression,
Mohammad Khatami
#60. Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
Romola Garai
#61. All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra Modi
#62. We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Nhat Hanh
#63. Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
John Doar
#64. It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.
Bernadette Devlin
#65. A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.
Joseph Addison
#66. For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
Ada Yonath
#67. Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
Thomas Sowell
#68. Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#69. The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#70. Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you chose for yourself, the other God chose for you.
Habeeb Akande
#71. Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.
Sepp Blatter
#72. Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
Brooks Atkinson
#73. [O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.
John Lewis
#75. Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash.
David Sedaris
#76. Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
Walter E. Williams
#77. A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.
Dannel Malloy
#78. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA was first introduced; the bill wasn't updated to the times we live in. It exempts businesses owned by religious groups.
Michelangelo Signorile
#79. Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because in reality, all the Latinos are going through the same experiences of discrimination and racism.
Andrea Navedo
#80. The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
Larry Gelbart
#81. So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.
Neil Abercrombie
#82. Every generation has a plague, so to speak, and that kind of prejudice and discrimination could so easily happen again if we're not mindful and careful.
Ryan Murphy
#83. I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.
Shirley Chisholm
#84. Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence.
Erik Martin Willen
#85. The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
Bayard Rustin
#86. I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.
John McCain
#87. Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.
Paul Robeson
#88. Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.
Sepp Blatter
#89. If God is love, then any regilion based on hatred, discrimination, punishments and prohibitions is from the Devil.
Kimberly Loskov
#90. On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.
Barbara Mikulski
#91. Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
Ryan White
#93. A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions.
Gian Kumar
#94. Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon
#95. I am not against migration. It is simply pragmatic to restrict migration, while at the same time encouraging integration and fighting discrimination. I support the idea of the free movement of goods, people, money and jobs in Europe.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#96. Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
Joseph Stiglitz
#97. Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion, no inequality and no racism.
M.F. Moonzajer
#98. Yet we allow our historical sympathy to override our aesthetic discrimination. We offer flowers of approbation when the artist is safely laid in his grave.
Okakura Kakuzo
#99. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Thomas Sowell
#100. I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christian business owners and individuals don't face discrimination for having a traditional view of marriage.
Bobby Jindal
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