Discrimination Quotes
497 Discrimination quotes by 365 unique authors
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Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.
— William J. Clinton
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John Lennon imagined a world filled with peace and love. Martin Luther King dreamt of a world free from racial discrimination and oppression. The guy…
— Jon Lajoie
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There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked…
— Dan Simmons
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Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
— Bob Black
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Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less…
— Anne Wilkes Tucker
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By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea,…
— Booker T. Washington
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The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.
— Pope John XXIII
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Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his…
— Brooks Atkinson
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It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and…
— Ezra Pound
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I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
— Josephine Baker
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To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
— Ronald Firbank
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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising…
— Ayn Rand
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Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
— Marvin Olasky
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I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual…
— Pauley Perrette
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The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because…
— Trevor Phillips
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Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
— Frederick Lenz
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Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States -…
— Ken Salazar
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My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me…
— John Lewis
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When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White…
— John Lewis
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He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.
— Trent Lott
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Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate…
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and…
— Susan Jacoby
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
— Warren Farrell
Who Wrote These Discrimination Quotes
365 authors contributed a total of 497 Discrimination Quotes, led by these top contributors: