Race And Discrimination quotes:

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  • So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics. -- Tracy Chapman
  • The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. -- Tom Lehrer
  • 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. -- Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero. -- Tim Wise
  • Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. -- Jesse Jackson
  • Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black. -- William O. Douglas
  • The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination -- Anita Hill
  • The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. -- John Roberts
  • Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids. -- Colin Powell
  • Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values. -- Mary Robinson
  • 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. -- Nelson Mandela
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