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Letter "D" » Discrimination
«How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.»
Author: Barbra Streisand
(Actress, Producer, Singer)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, safeguard
«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»
Author: Elizabeth Fee
| About:
Discrimination,
Science
| Keywords:
classes, distinctions, entrenched, entrenches, legitimize, legitimizes, political science, races, rationalize, rationalized, sexes, social class, social classes, social function, social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences
«In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.»
Author: Shirley Chisholm
(Politician)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
antiblack, discrimination, equivalent
«Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.»
Author: Thurgood Marshall
(Jurist, Lawyer)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, Eliminating, jury, peremptory, racial, racial discrimination
«If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.»
«Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, genocide, improbably, social class, social classes
«All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, Federal, in public, local, permitting, provisions, public education, requiring
«How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
acknowledged, discrimination, legally, morally, obliged, operate, parliament, parliaments, racial, racial discrimination, represented, The Authority, trial, universally
«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»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
absolute truth, and others, delusion, Delusions, discrimination, unpleasant, various, viewpoint, viewpoints
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, dominating, gnaws, hellhound, inferiority, moment of truth, Negroes, remind, waking
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