Discrimination Quotes

497 Discrimination quotes by 365 unique authors

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
...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 — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some.… — Chad Griffin

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