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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

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist. — Auliq Ice

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. — Christopher Hitchens

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. — Thomas Sowell

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike. — Ban Ki-moon

Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you. — DaShanne Stokes

For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination. — Asa Don Brown

Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody. — Anthony Powell

Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive. — Shannon A. Thompson

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. — Marian Wright Edelman

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism. — Gordon Parks

A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions. — Gian Kumar

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

I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation. — Angela Merkel

An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people. — Shelley Berkley

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights. — Carol Bellamy

It seemed nice. They all seemed nice. I had no framework for discrimination. — Graeme Simsion

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination. — Leta B.

Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination, — Kim Gandy

The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words. — Frederick Lenz

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants. — E. M. Forster

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination. — Bill Watterson

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. — Carl T. Rowan

Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination. — Hillary Clinton

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell

We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving. — Santosh Kalwar

Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga. — Frederick Lenz

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves. — Zainab Salbi

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. — Betty Friedan

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

Government studies show that there are still more than two million race-based housing discrimination crimes every year.8 — Paula Harris

Why do they hate us?" He paused. "We didn't do anything wrong. — Shannon A. Thompson

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. — Nelson Mandela

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism. — Adam Fletcher

Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of. — Edmund Burke

Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting. — Gwen Ifill

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance. — Richard Dawkins

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse. — Ruby Wax

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. — Oliver Tambo

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination. — John Oliver Killens

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago. — Sally Graham

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Discrimination weakens the soul and the strength of a nation. — Ron Baratono

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. — Trent Lott

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real. — Adam Fletcher

Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin — Bill Watterson

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance. — Auliq Ice

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive — Ursula K. Le Guin

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all. — DaShanne Stokes

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution. — Frederick Lenz

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. — Audre Lorde

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination. — Josephine Baker

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is. — Rajneesh

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people. — Adam Fletcher

My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government. — Barack Obama

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination. — Peter Dinklage

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. — Bill Gates

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. — Earl Warren

When Newsweek owner Katharine Graham heard about our lawsuit, she asked, Which side am I supposed to be on? — Lynn Povich

The eternal wave of hate never stops. — Lilo Abernathy

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. — DaShanne Stokes

Discrimination is a disease. — Roger Staubach

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently. — Maggie Gallagher

Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human. — Mansi Tejpal

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into. — Charles Mingus

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also — Gloria Steinem

I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor! — Casey Wilson

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus. — Elizabeth I

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. — Thurgood Marshall

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

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. — Carter G. Woodson

The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged. — Janelle Gray

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it. — Ryan White

With wrong people, there has to be a choice, to stay with them and go down with them or reject them and suffer alone. — Auliq Ice

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. — Ramakrishna

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both. — Ruby Wax

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! — Patrick W. Corrigan

The single most instinctive evil is discrimination — Rahul Bose

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. — Epictetus

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation. — Malcolm X

Humans are naturally elusioned in discrimination; it starts when we look for the first time in mirror — M.F. Moonzajer

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women. — Warren Farrell

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead

You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. — Gillian Flynn

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. — Eliot Engel

No loose fish enters our quiet bay. — Gertrude Atherton

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination. — Ambrose Bierce

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. — Bob Black

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. — Jalal Talabani

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football. — Sepp Blatter

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. — Edward Kennedy

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat. — Rebecca West