Quotes About Discrimination

I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.

I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation.

The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for religious groups in the world. They aren't perfect, but they provide a strong basis for religious groups to be free from fear of discrimination. I'm proud of this because it underpins what is decent about our country.

We continue to work on policy to end discrimination against people with criminal records.

It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.

In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.

I don't personally feel like I've dealt with any sort of discrimination or sexism. I'm not doubting that there might have been that going on and I just didn't read it that way.

Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.

We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

Going forward, I am focused on rooting out discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.

If someone is being misogynistic, you have to name it. It's not convenient to talk about discrimination, but if you don't do it, you allow it to exist. So you have to name it.

Because of the discrimination during my time as a teenager I decided to live my life as I want it.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

There is so much discrimination towards women in Haryana.

It took LGBT activists 15 years to defeat section 28, but this is not a movement that's afraid of the long struggle. They know all progress is hard-fought, that discrimination against any individual anywhere is discrimination against all, and that the campaign for true, global equality must therefore be won one issue, case and country at a time.

'Article 15' prohibits any kind of discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, or religion. My film is about the discrimination we practice on various levels.

The lack of role models at the top means women can't look up and see an image of themselves as easily as men can. And there is still discrimination.

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote exclusively on the basis of race.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?