Best Anti Discrimination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You have to be careful when having fun because what is fun to you may not be fun to someone else.”

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“One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.”

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“The law is well alive. If one cuts it, it will bleed. Consequently, my only lingering concern is to determine its apposite transgressor regardless of his status. The slightest failure to aggressively do so would make the law a façade of my commitment to see a society free of any discrimination.” Attorney Jerry Boies.”

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Author:Jerry Boies

“Sometimes you gotta lose a few people to succeed.”

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Author:Robbie J, Farha

“Sie reden vielleicht auch gehässig über den Fremden, dabei plappern sie aber nur nach, was sie von Erwachsenen hören. Niemand wird mit Vorurteilen geboren.”

Truth Prejudice Anti Discrimination Insirational

Book:Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben: Als Blinder unter Sehenden. Eine wahre Geschichte

Source: Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben: Als Blinder unter Sehenden. Eine wahre Geschichte

“Sie reden [...] gehässig über den Fremden, dabei plappern sie aber nur nach, was sie von Erwachsenen hören. Niemand wird mit Vorurteilen geboren.”

Inspirational Prejudice Anti Discrimination

Book:Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben

Source: Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben

“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution”

“If you're a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up? Should the government - and this is really the case here - should the government force you to do that?”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.”

“It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.”

“We're still fighting to make sure that basic anti-discrimination laws are enforced, not just at the federal level, by the way, but throughout government and throughout the private sector? And those are fights that we can win because - and this is where I do believe America has changed - the majority, not by any means 100 percent, but the majority of Americans believe in the idea of nondiscrimination.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”

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Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”

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

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Author:Barbra Streisand

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less”

“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.”

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Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

“I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.”

“We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know, I grew up, born on a government blanket under a palm tree. I lived under lantana bushes, I've seen more dinner times than I've seen dinners, I've known discrimination, I've known prejudice, I've known all of those things... but some of that is still with us... and it's got to be changed.”

“The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.”

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.”

“Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.”

“Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.”

“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, acceptance, and understanding.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

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

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

“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 accordion-like quality.”

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Author:William O. Douglas

“Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.”

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Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations