Best 427 quotes in «discrimination quotes» category

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

Discrimination is a disease.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.

Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

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

Employers are not prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find themselves displaced to far-flung neighborhoods or to the streets. Racist discrimination in housing, which has been around for decades and follows centuries of slavery, has exacerbated the housing affordability crisis for people of color.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

If personal safety means discrimination, then I'm all for it.

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.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

I have a lot of love for the resilience personified in so many achievements made by Americans. I feel not American when that idea of resilience is appropriated to justify discrimination, e.g., "Make America Great Again.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination - the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination; it's all discrimination.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

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.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so we made our own. That is feminism to me.

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

I think that in the diaspora, and among immigrants, religion becomes a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information, and cultural codes, and this does end up re-inscribing certain things about the religion - like caste. Caste discrimination and hierarchy are still a very fundamental and violent part of Hinduism. My family was upper caste, and that was very clear. I feel like caste and religious practice are inextricable, actually.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

It's through neglecting all other values to bring the customer the lowest price that Wal-Mart ended up with such a horrible sex discrimination problem, but that model produces lots and lots of other problems as well, which I think are possibly going to be more difficult to fix.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!

I would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here...It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.