Discrimination Quotes - Page 27

• They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.

  Charles Barkley

  Gay, Long, People

  "Charles Barkley: I Had Gay Teammates". www.espn.com. May 18, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Times are changing and women need the critical stimulus of competition outside the home. A girl must nowadays believe completely in herself as an individual. She must realize at the outset that a woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it. She must be aware of the various discriminations , both legal and traditional, against women in the business world.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Jobs, Believe

  42 Copy quote

• My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  Saina Nehwal

  Girl, Uncles, Children

  74 Copy quote

• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Unjust Society

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

  Bayard Rustin

  Mean, Desire, Democracy

  186 Copy quote

• Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiration, Fighting, Groups

  8 Copy quote

• I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it where ever I can find a place. If I had a similar moral code when it comes to romance, I would be divorced several times over by now. That is the reason I grow a cottage garden. I can stick everything in with complete abandon and no discrimination whatsoever.

  Cassandra Danz

  Home, Garden, Romance

  Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Happiness, Luxury, Justice

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets.

  Johanna Sigurðardottir

  Men, Keys, Goal

  10 Copy quote

• While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

  Zainab Salbi

  Hair, Together, May

  337 Copy quote

• We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  People, Prejudice, Disgrace

  90 Copy quote

• Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

  Adam Fletcher

  People, Addresses, Honest

  4 Copy quote

• Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.

  Brad Pitt

  Live Life, America, Desire

  "Brad Pitt comes out against gay marriage ban proposal" by Kevin Anderson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.

  F. F. Bruce

  Jesus, Children, Blessing

  Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce, Manfred Brauch (2010). “Hard Sayings of the Bible”, p.366, InterVarsity Press

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA was first introduced; the bill wasn’t updated to the times we live in. It exempts businesses owned by religious groups.

  Michelangelo Signorile

  Religious, Years, Firsts

  "Why New Polling Shows Both the GOP and LGBT Groups Are Out of Touch" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2014.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

  Adam Fletcher

  Knowing, People, Pet

  4 Copy quote

• Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

  Adam Fletcher

  Real

  4 Copy quote

• Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

  Adam Fletcher

  Children, People, Perspective

  4 Copy quote

• Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Real, Men, He Man

  4 Copy quote

• Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.

  Chrystos

  Cities, Names, Knees

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Girl, Korea, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Breaking Down, Mainstream, Polish

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Korea, Issues, Feminism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Country, Sex, Opportunity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Teacher, Jobs, School

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source