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    As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

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    Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

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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.

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

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

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

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    as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

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    Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

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

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    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.

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    Discrimination is a disease.

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

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

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

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    Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.

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    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.

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

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    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 .

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

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    Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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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.

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    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.

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    It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

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

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    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.

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