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 Copy Share Image
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I think about our HBCUs, I think of icons like my mentor Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina State graduate, who fought… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
“Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender,… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
“One of the things that economics brings to the analysis is explicit recognition that people will not engage in activities—including racial discrimination—no… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Most clubs say they will not tolerate any forms of discrimination - that cannot be something that is just said. It needs… — Eniola Aluko Copy Share Image
The private person Tom Neuwirth and the art figure Conchita Wurst respect each other from the bottom of their hearts. They are… — Conchita Wurst Copy Share Image
It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
“Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly… — Kavita Kane Copy Share Image
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices.… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I don't encourage people to litigate when facing discrimination: It is so hard - painful and difficult. It's draining financially, emotionally, and… — Ellen Pao Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The idea behind it did come out of my love for travel shows. I loved them as a little kid and I… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America,… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an… — Robert Brady Copy Share Image
“Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Black women have a kind of advantage over white women in the workplace. They go in prepared to face some discrimination, so… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way. — Pat Nixon Copy Share Image
“It's a kind of assault, this constant insistence that we can't be publicly acknowledged. Sometimes an act as simple as a person… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race,… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image