Discrimination Quotes - Page 7

• I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

  Rumi

  Eye, Use, Guides

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• Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Evil, Agents

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

  Harry Belafonte

  Children, School, Fighting

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• Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Zero, Sight, Hiv

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• The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.

  Dean Baker

  Hate, War, People

  "Won’t You Please Come to Chicago?" by Dean Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Living in 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 now.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Girl, Korea, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.

  Amira Hass

  Choices, Occupation, Ends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Real, Views

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• [It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Practice, Historical, Steps

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• Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

  Frantz Fanon

  Hate, Lynching, Justice

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.53, Pluto Press

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• To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
  By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

  Adi Shankara

  Wise, Self, Meditation

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• It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage.

  Brad Pitt

  Gay, Marriage Equality, Matter

  "Brad Pitt Strengthens Stand on Marriage Equality". people.com. July 5, 2011.

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• Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law. I have said this before and I say it again: any discrimination or violence against any community will not be tolerated. My position on this is very clear: Sab ka saath, sab ka vikas. We stand for every one of the 1.25 billion Indians regardless or caste or creed and we will work for the progress of every one of them.

  Narendra Modi

  Community, Progress, Violence

  Source: www.thefrustratedindian.com

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• The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed.

  John Howard

  Believe, Views, Racism

  Sir Robert Menzies Lecture, 1996.

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• The idea behind it did come out of my love for travel shows. I loved them as a little kid and I loved Anthony Bourdain, but I really did want to see one about LGBTQ communities and culture and the specific country that we visit. Of course it is about the joys and the triumphs and the nightlife, but sadly, unfortunately, it's also about the discrimination that people face, because that's the reality.

  Ellen Page

  Country, Kids, Reality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Native American, Sacrifice, Land

  "The Lost History of Puerto Rico’s Independence Movement". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Body, Consciousness

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• Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

  Walter E. Williams

  Choices, Scarcity, Causes

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• When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Perfection, Mind

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• The reality is that we do not live in a predominantly feminist or 'gender equal' world, and many Australian women are experiencing workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, online abuse or worse, or common forms of casual, everyday sexism. They find themselves dismissed, talked over, ignored or facing backlash for doing the same thing their male colleagues are doing.

  Tara Moss

  Reality, Feminist, Abuse

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thinking, Practice, Quota

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.58, Best Books on

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• I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Character, Mean, Greatness

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