Discrimination Quotes · Page 15

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

— William O. Douglas

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

— Adam Fletcher

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

— DaShanne Stokes

We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

— Niki Ashton

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

— Ellen Page

People who lack the skill of discrimination tend to believe that everything is of relatively equal importance.

— Michael Gerber

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

— Jalal Talabani

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

— Wilma Mankiller

When I think about our HBCUs, I think of icons like my mentor Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina State graduate, who fought…

— Jaime Harrison

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not…

— Octavia Spencer

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has…

— Walt Whitman

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It…

— Salma Hayek

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and…

— Peter Dinklage

Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.

— Frederick Lenz

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also…

— Rene Cassin

One reason women are left 'holding the baby' is anti-male discrimination in rights of maternity/paternity leave.

— Dominic Raab

Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is…

— Judith Butler

Humans are the only beings that judge and discriminate other human beings by the language they speak, the color of the skin,…

— London Mond

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination,…

— Rachel Simmons

In the shadow of the Holocaust and centuries of discrimination, Israel miraculously beat the odds to form a flourishing democracy, in fighting…

— Colin Allred

According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism,…

— Greg Mortenson

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to…

— Gloria Steinem

It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at…

— Barack Obama

“Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability…

— Ramesh Lohia

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about…

— Steven Pinker

It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially…

— Greg Mortenson

I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was…

— Walter E. Williams

There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger…

— Dan Simmons

“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is…

— Stephen Lewis

I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I…

— Hillary Clinton

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Warren Farrell

Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

— Barack Obama

I experienced discrimination online. I think every player does.

— Bukayo Saka

This color issue goes both ways. We have to watch how we put down one group to uplift the other.

— Anonymous

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

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

— Kim Gandy

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

— Barack Obama

“You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.”

— Katherine Arden