Discrimination Quotes - Page 22

• Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Mean, Differences

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• Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Appreciation, Art, Alive

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

  John F. Kerry

  Kings, Moving, School

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• When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Meditation, Solitude

  "Ramakrishna and His Disciples". Book by Christopher Isherwood, 1965.

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• Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Dollars, Taxation

  Ronald Reagan (1981). “Rendezvous with destiny”, Osmond Pub Co

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• I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Equality, Race

  Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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• As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

  Al Sharpton

  Long, Racism, Slavery

  "Racism & Bias — Can We Pause and Be Honest with Ourselves?" by Al Sharpton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2014.

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• The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

  Phillip Lopate

  Desirable

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books

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• The yoga of discrimination is only practiced once you have started to go into Samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Samadhi

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• Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

  Earl Warren

  Yield, Law, Principles

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• The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Humility, Night

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Race, Judging, Racist

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• From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Memories, Confused, Men

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• Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?

  Samuel Johnson

  Nice, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.589

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• Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.

  Richard Lamm

  Ghetto, Heart, Ambition

  "Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America". Book by Richard Lamm, 2006.

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• Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Racism, Stupidity

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• Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Strong, Hate, Sacrifice

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.138, Oxford University Press

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• Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Thinking, Acid

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Together, Path Of Love

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• Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some not. Style grows from admiration, from longing, from discrimination—and, yes, from love. It’s all the places you’ve been to and the people and the moments you’ve known: the parts you’ve adopted, to keep forever, and transformed. We wear our history in our hearts and on our backs.

  Carol Edgarian

  Heart, People, Forever

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• The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga

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• In human rights theory it is very important that governments still have the primary responsibility for the standards and provision of such services even if they no longer deliver them. They must insist that the private sector delivers without discrimination. So governments still have responsibility, including the need to influence business.

  Mary Robinson

  Responsibility, Rights, Government

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Months

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

  Jimmy Carter

  People, World, Poor

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• Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is less important than the right to be free to live it out, without discrimination, harassment, injury, pathologization or criminalization - and with full institutional and community support. That is most important in my view.

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Views, Support

  Source: transadvocate.com

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