Discrimination Quotes - Page 16

• I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

  Donald Trump

  Community, African American, Made

  "New Questions Over Claims In Burns' Bio; Clinton Losing Ground In Latest National Polls; Texas Tops Notre Dame In Double Overtime; Megan Rapinoe's Nod To Kaepernick". "New day", www.cnn.com. September 5, 2016.

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• I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Energy, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn't even think about discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Thinking, Psychology, Goes On

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Race, Goal

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• 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 the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the Legislature as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Class, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.265

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• In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Mean, Past

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.

  John McCain

  Believe, Years, Racism

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• There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lgbt Community, Racism, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• People understand who Donald Trump is. There was a lawsuit against him for housing discrimination, racial discrimination against African-Americans that`s been in "The New York Times". Decades ago with "The New York Times".

  Chris Hayes

  New York, People, African American

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Years, White

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Issues, Battle, Reform

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• I am disappointed that after all of the struggles that we have had in this country for such a long time, trying to get through and beyond racism and bigotry and discrimination - I think it is sad. It just tells us the kind of work that we have to do as - as America, as a nation.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

  Patanjali

  Ignorance, World, Way

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• We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

  David Ansen

  Love Is, Understanding, Dislike

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• That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

  Desmond Tutu

  Doe, Sin, Knows

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• 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. Utah's ban on marriage equality does nothing to strengthen or protect any marriage. Instead, it singles out thousands of loving Utah families for unfair treatment simply because of who they are. Our Constitution does not allow for such blatant discrimination.

  Chad Griffin

  Utah, Rights, Decision

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• Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Men, Justice

  Jimmy Carter, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, Gerald R. Ford (1978). “The Presidential campaign, 1976”

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  A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Sex, Women

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held, will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.

  Robert Lewis Hinkle

  Sex, Gay, Florida

  "Federal judge strikes down Florida's ban on same-sex marriage". www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2014.

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• It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.

  Tom Harkin

  Gay, Bisexual, Past

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• We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

  Coretta Scott King

  Religious, Believe, Struggle

  Coretta Scott King's remarks at Opening Plenary Session of the 13th annual "Creating Change" conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2000.

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• The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.

  Mel White

  Christian, Children, Gay

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• I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex couples in this country. Now, I want to add we have a duty to uphold existing law, but I believe we must do so in a way that does not exacerbate old divides. And fulfilling this duty in upholding the law in no way lessens my commitment to reversing this law. I've made that clear.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Sex, Couple

  "Sweet Speech, Mr. President - But Where Was the Apology? And Where’s the Action?" By Karen Ocamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2009.

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• Like the vast majority of Americans, I've opposed same-sex marriage, but I've also opposed unjust discrimination against anyone, for racial or religious reasons, or for sexual preference. Americans are a tolerant, generous, and kind people. We all oppose bigotry and disparagement. But the debate over same-sex marriage is not a debate over tolerance. It is a debate about the purpose of the institution of marriage and it is a debate about activist judges who make up the law rather than interpret the law.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Sex, Gay

  "A Primary Factor". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 14, 2006.

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• Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Knows

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