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• Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

  Eliot Engel

  Our World, America, United States

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• Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, Racism, Racist

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Thinking, Racism

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• To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

  Ronald Firbank

  Sympathetic

  Ronald Firbank (1986). “3 More Novels”, p.66, New Directions Publishing

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

  Alexis Herman

  Real, People, Important

  "Praeger Handbook on Understanding and Preventing Workplace Discrimination". Book by Michele Antoinette Paludi, p. 13, 2010.

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• The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.

  Thomas Cole

  Understanding, Tenacity, 1960s

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• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Opportunity, Games

  "Olympics: Now make a level playing field for women" by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

  Rand Paul

  Favors, Form

  "Rand Paul's rewriting of his own remarks on the Civil Rights Act". Interview with Glenn Kessler, www.washingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Different, Treats, Different Things

  John Corvino, Maggie Gallagher (2012). “Debating Same-Sex Marriage”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Running, Attitude, Long

  "The Influence of a School District's Early Childhood Education Policy on Urban Students' Academic Achievement Towards Advanced Class Placement". Book by Alice P. Bartley, p. 21, 2008.

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• The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Government, People, Authority

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, in who's really going to administer this stuff.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Land, Stuff

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• Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Hate, Heart

  1994 LongWalk to Freedom.

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• In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Animal, Hands

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

  Carol Bellamy

  Rights, Practice, Dignity

  "Praeger Handbook on Understanding and Preventing Workplace Discrimination". Book edited by Michele A. Paludi,‎ Eros R. DeSouza and‎ Carmen A. Paludi, Jr., 2010.

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• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

  Harold Geneen

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

  Bob Black

  Employment, Ends, Should

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

  Mary Browne

  Motivational, Wise, Wisdom

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• We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Gay, Men

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• The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

  Elaine Morgan

  Believe, Taken, Men

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Believe, Moving

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• You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

  Epictetus

  Physicians, Ought

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.

  William O. Douglas

  Compelling Reason, Race, Quality

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• Discrimination is a disease.

  Roger Staubach

  Racism, Disease

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