Discrimination Quotes · Page 16

“Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

— John Roberts

“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Be discriminating when choosing those you accept into your life

— Julie Hernandez

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

— Aretha Franklin

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

— Malcolm X

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

— Margaret Hoover

“The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

— Olympia Snowe

We have to look at it holistically and as a whole and say let us tackle racism or discrimination in life. Then…

— John Barnes

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

— Anonymous

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

— Arancha Gonzalez

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that…

— Joseph Addison

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

— Lester Maddox

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

— Margaret Mead

Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find…

— Solly Granatstein

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to…

— Stella Young

Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone…

— Neville Bonner

I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a…

— Coretta Scott King

The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of…

— Thomas Sowell

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why…

— Thomas Sowell

There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was…

— William J. Brennan

“In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the…

— Ray Brassier

We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to…

— Timothy Shriver

There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to…

— Sun Tzu

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different…

— Thomas Young

Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it…

— Vittorio Arrigoni

[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those…

— James Madison

The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under…

— Potter Stewart

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

— George Orwell

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

— Ronald Firbank

Since I was a teenager I have been standing up to antisemitism, racism and discrimination in all its forms.

— Luciana Berger

Attacking racism and discrimination is a very important way to work against radicalisation.

— Deeyah Khan

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

— Chrystos

We also owe our people a working environment free of discrimination, hate, and harassment.

— Lloyd Austin

The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.

— Michelle Alexander

“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”

— DaShanne Stokes