Discrimination Quotes
497 quotes by 365 authors
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In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more…
— Bob Hawke
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We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know,…
— Neville Bonner
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We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the…
— Paul Keating
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Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.
— Ban Ki-moon
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Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that…
— Harry Belafonte
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I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are…
— Ralph Fiennes
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Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children…
— Richard Farson
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to lie about who…
— Tammy Baldwin
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It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry…
— Brad Pitt
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If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution…
— Unknown Author
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My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts…
— Mary Robinson
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Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why…
— Irene Khan
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Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.
— Hillary Clinton
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of…
— Navi Pillay
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The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any…
— Potter Stewart
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The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not…
— Shelby Steele
Who Wrote These Discrimination Quotes
365 authors contributed a total of 497 Discrimination Quotes, led by these top contributors: