Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men."
Discrimination quotes
Discrimination
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Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer, Author
"We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"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."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition."
Thomas Cole
Painter
"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."
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"calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm."
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"I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination."
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"You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful."
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"Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group."
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"The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination"
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"I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted."
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"I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form."
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"I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black."
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"No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country."
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"The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government."
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"Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus."
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"I would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here...It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination."
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"If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide."
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"Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena"
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"Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom."
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"Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole."
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"We don't make determinations about who we love. And that's why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong."
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"Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination."
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"I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are."
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"I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation."
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