Discrimination Quotes

497 quotes by 365 authors

...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis… — William J. Clinton
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And… — Ronald Reagan
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in… — William J. Clinton
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her… — Robert Burns
It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without… — James Madison
I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to… — Larry Gelbart
More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of… — Michelle Alexander
All the help that comes to us is form the Holy Spirit, whether it comes in a dream or through the help of a friend… — Harold Klemp
Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination, — Kim Gandy
The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and for a war… — Charles Barkley
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her… — Coretta Scott King
Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War… — Ann Coulter
Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true â€” the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some.… — Chad Griffin
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. — Betty Friedan
I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm
I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination. — John Hume
The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and… — Mohammad Khatami
I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation. — Malcolm X

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