Quotes and Sayings About Discrimination
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The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.
-- Adam Fletcher -
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
-- Ally Sheedy -
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination
-- Anita Hill -
No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.
-- Barack Obama -
Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.
-- Barack Obama -
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
-- Betty Friedan -
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
-- Bob Black -
While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
-- Bruce Hornsby -
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
-- Carl Lewis -
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.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
-- Charlotte Bunch -
The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.
-- Christine Gregoire -
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
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.
-- Clarence Thomas -
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.
-- David Hilbert -
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.
-- David Hilbert -
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.
-- Eddie Bernice Johnson -
I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
-- Edward Kennedy -
In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.
-- Evan Sayet -
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.
-- Gary L. Francione -
Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.
-- George Orwell
