Quotes with discrimination

  • In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
  • At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
  • By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
  • A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
  • How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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  • Robert Burns 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 own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    Source: The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Carl Lewis Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Albert Maltz By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bobby Rush Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
    Bobby Rush
     
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  • Ban Ki-moon Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • A. E. Housman Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
    Source: The Name and Nature of Poetry
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Barbra Streisand How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Brad Feld In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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