Discrimination Quotes - Page 25

• During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Roots, Needs, Causes

  "Interview with Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women". Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

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• I really don't think that an older worker can stop age discrimination, but you can successfully distract the employer from that issue if you focus on the reason they really want to hire you and that can make you more successful. It's up to you to demonstrate that.

  Nick Corcodilos

  Successful, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that the big age problem in the job market today is really on the part of employers and that they don't seem to be calculating the cost of age discrimination to them when they practice it.

  Nick Corcodilos

  Thinking, Age, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be.

  Jan Brewer

  United States, Arizona, Illegal

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 27, 2010.

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  We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Memorable

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

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• In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Evil, Effort

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 168, 1968.

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• To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

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• It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

  Lionel Jospin

  Xenophobia, Racism, Adoption

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• The single most instinctive evil is discrimination

  Rahul Bose

  Evil

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• (F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Years, Achievement, Crow

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• Taylor Swift's dedication to advocacy at such a young age continues to inspire me, and I'm delighted to honor her as one of our 2012 Ripple of Hope Award recipients. [...] and especially the compassion she's shown as a proud defender against bullying and LGBTI discrimination. [...] As a young person, Taylor has already accomplished so much, and I look forward to watching all that she will do to help build a brighter, more peaceful world for us all.

  Kerry Kennedy

  Bullying, Compassion, Dedication

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• It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Eye, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• I don't like the idea of telling private business owners. I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant. But at the same time I do believe in private ownership. I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets public funding.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "'All-Star' Panel on Dennis Blair's Resignation and Rand Paul's Civil Rights Gaffe". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Boys, Alive

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• Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

  Warren Farrell

  Husband, Father, Political

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. ... The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Italian, Past, Evil

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• The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?

  David Horowitz

  Character, Adversity, Class

  "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too" by David Horowitz, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 3, 2001.

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• The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

  Rene Cassin

  Racism, Evil, Freedom Of Speech

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• You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

  Robert Frost

  Brave, Ethics, Chance

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• A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Satire, Should, Objects

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• I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.

  Tim Cook

  Growing Up, Moving, Law

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• In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

  Catherine Cortez Masto

  Hate, White, Voice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Justice, Islam, Double Standard

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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