Discrimination quotations

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◆ Judging someone by the color of their skin is ignorant. Their skin complexion has nothing to do with their morals, beliefs or intelligence.

- Savannah Smith99

◆ All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

- Earl Warren98

◆ Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson98

◆ If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality.

- William Orville Douglas98

◆ Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

- Dwight David Eisenhower98

◆ Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

- Ally Sheedy98

◆ Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

- Carter G Woodson98

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

- Rosalyn S Yalow98

◆ It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

- Jim Ramstad98

◆ Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

- Ramakrishna98

◆ Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

- Trent Lott98

◆ That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

- Lester Maddox98

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

- Jean-Francois Lyotard98

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

- Theodor Adorno98