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Quotations on Discrimination 42 Quotes Found What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights. Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. 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. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation. 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. The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination. Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others. Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country. Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers. It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem. 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. Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies. It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so. Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination. How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish. |
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