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Discrimination Quotes


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


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


"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."


"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."


"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."


"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."


"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."


"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."


"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."


"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."


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


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


"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."


"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime."


"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
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