Discrimination Quotes - Page 17

• Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Return, Emotion

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• Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

  Riane Eisler

  Our World, Hunger And Poverty, People

  Riane Eisler (2008). “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians! It's no different! It is the same thing! It is happening all over again! It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians! Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today! More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Stupid, America

  "Toss (some of 'em) to the lions". "The Tuscaloosa News" Newspaper, 6A, September 15, 1993.

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• There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

  William J. Brennan

  Sex, Attitude, Long

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• My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

  John Oliver Killens

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

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• All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

  John Shelby Spong

  Respect, Race, Ethnicity

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• We need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held.

  Samuel Ruiz

  Play, Racism, Overcoming

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• Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Racism, Important, Tools

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• 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

  Feminist, Prejudice, Erase

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Life So Far: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Black, Mets

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• 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 displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Land, People, Hardship

  " Israelis to lift travel restrictions in Jericho", www.cnn.com. April 24, 2001.

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• The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic.
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  I have always said to the Muslim women, please do not nurture the victim mentality. Stand up for your rights.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Islamic, Rights

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• I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Racist, Segregation

  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.

  Antonin Scalia

  Eye, Thinking, Race

  Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200, 239, 1995.

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• The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Eye, Race, Way

  "Opinion: Sonia Sotomayor's Dissent On Affirmative Action Will Bear Test Of Time" by Raul A. Reyes, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2014.

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• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I have clearly stated in prior interviews that I abhor racial discrimination and would have worked to end segregation. Even though this matter was settled when I was 2, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Rights, Racism

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• Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, Jim Crow Laws, Practice

  "Rand Paul attempts to clarify" by Steve Benen, washingtonmonthly.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Attitude, Law, Cuba

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• Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Children, Mean

  "This #WomensEqualityDay, Remember What Your Vote Means" by Charleta B. Tavares, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2016.

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• Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute - collectively and individually - to build peace through non-violence.

  Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

  Men, Racism, Hatred

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• Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Work, Home, Poor Education

  "A Prayer for America". Book by Dennis Kucinich, 2003.

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• We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.

  Patsy Mink

  Country, Racism, Suffering

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• They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

  Bella Abzug

  Individuality, Promise, Suffering

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• 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

  Sports, Want, Poor

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• I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

  John Deacon

  Beach, Segregation, Bus

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