Quotes on Discrimination

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

Author: Theodor Adorno

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

Author: Bob Black

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

Author: Lionel Blue

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.

Author: Robert Brady

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.

Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

Author: Ronald Firbank

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

Author: John Hume

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Author: Hubert Humphrey

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Author: Eddie Johnson

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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

Author: Wilma Mankiller

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Author: Thurgood Marshall

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

Author: Debbie Schultz

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Author: Ally Sheedy

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

Author: Olympia Snowe

Discrimination is a disease.

Author: Roger Staubach

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

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.

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

Author: Jalal Talabani

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.

Author: Clarence Thomas

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.

Author: Carter Woodson

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.

Author: Wilhelm Wundt