Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Facebook captures examples of inequality and makes them available for endless replay. Twitter links the voiceless to newsmakers. Instagram immortalizes the faces… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Times are changing and women need the critical stimulus of competition outside the home. A girl must nowadays believe completely in herself… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
This is the whole point of intersectionality - that it cannot only be a single-issue analysis of race and gender, and instead… — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
“A Gallup survey in 1962 indicated that only about one-third of American women considered themselves victims of discrimination. Eight years later the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determining their own goals and needs. But the same discrimination… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
The ADA prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities receive the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in the mainstreams… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
John Lennon imagined a world filled with peace and love. Martin Luther King dreamt of a world free from racial discrimination and… — Jon Lajoie Copy Share Image
“...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In human rights theory it is very important that governments still have the primary responsibility for the standards and provision of such… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The issue here revolves around the "right to be different (Mattos 1994:16). People have difficulty living harmoniously with those who are different.… — Gerald O. West Copy Share Image
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation,… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
