Quotes About Social Discrimination

#1. Despite the legacy of slavery, the near extermination of native Americans, and persistent racial, sexual, and social discrimination, the citizens of the United States could plausibly claim, in 1945, to live in the freest society on the face of the earth.

John Lewis Gaddis

#2. One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Ida B. Wells

#3. Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

Lara Giddings

#4. Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

Madeleine Albright

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Perhaps most heroic are those who, upon release, launch social justice organizations that challenge the discrimination ex-offenders face and provide desperately needed support for those newly released from prison.

Michelle Alexander

#8. Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Andrea Dworkin

#10. 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

#11. A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

Ruben Blades

#12. Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And then realized it wasn't what you wanted at all?

Neil Gaiman

#13. Some people are just crazy about something while others are lucky enough to get that.

M.H. Rakib

#14. 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

#15. I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.

Kublai Khan

#16. Real chains that we need to shed are the burdens of racial discrimination, economic disparity, religious dogmas, intolerance and social injustice, which still weigh heavily on our shoulders.

Balroop Singh

#17. Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

Keri Smith

#18. The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

Patrick W. Corrigan

#19. So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

Agesilaus II

#21. It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

George W. Bush

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

Rosalyn S. Yalow

#23. South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.

Kim Hyesoon

#24. A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#25. (In 2006, social psychologist Bella DePaulo, PhD, coined the word singlism to mean "the stereotyping, stigmatizing, and discrimination against people who are single.")

Kate Bolick

#26. Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.

Mick Karabegovic

#27. Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.

Irene Khan

#28. What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

B.R. Ambedkar

#29. A Good Example Is An Example :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Worldpoet 546
Netherlands, Tilburg, December 6, 1972
May 2053
God
Amen

Petra Hermans

#30. Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

Rudolf Steiner

#31. Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.

George Takei

#32. After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.

Pankaj Mishra

#33. Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly been cruelly reminded that as a sutaputra, he cannot aspire to more than he deserves, but he believes in his own worth.

Kavita Kane

#34. Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.

Ashton Applewhite