Discrimination quotes

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◆ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

- Martin Luther King Jr100

◆ End discrimination. Hate everybody

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◆ I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

- Nelson Mandela99

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

- Thurgood Marshall99

◆ I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions

- Elizabeth Fee99

◆ How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

- Barbra Streisand99

◆ Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

- Martin Luther King Jr99

◆ From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant

- Dalai Lama99

◆ If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

- Anthony J D'Angelo99

◆ Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

- Zora Neale Hurston99

◆ In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

- Shirley Chisholm99

◆ 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 Johnson99

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

- Jimmy Carter99

◆ I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, accep

- Bill Clinton99