Discrimination Quotes

497 quotes by 365 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to lie about who… — Tammy Baldwin
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
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
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
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
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
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
Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination. — Hillary Clinton
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
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
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
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

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