Discrimination Quotes

497 Discrimination quotes by 365 unique authors

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and… — Bruce Hornsby
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not… — Brigid Brophy
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies.… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it… — Sydney J. Harris
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the… — Dalai Lama
The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination,… — Neil Abercrombie
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as… — Jay-Z
Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny… — Sepp Blatter
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly,… — Eddie Bernice Johnson
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness… — A. E. Housman
I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. — Patrick J. Kennedy
The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized… — Chris Hayes
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. — Lester Maddox
We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves. The… — Ai Weiwei
We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence,… — Satish Kumar
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition… — Bryan Stevenson
It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told… — Royal Cortissoz
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade… — Michelle Alexander
There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny, — Hun Sen
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity,… — Michelle Alexander
When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender,… — Cordelia Fine
Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of… — James Madison

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