Discrimination Quotes - Page 2

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

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.

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

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.

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

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

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

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

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

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

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

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