Discrimination Quotes

"In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism."
-Shirley Chisholm

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

"How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination."
-Barbra Streisand

"There's no discrimination against U.S. citizens in this, and that's what the law requires, that there be no discrimination against U.S. citizens."
-Josh Bernstein

"We are peacefully trying to deliver the message that there shouldn't be any discrimination and they shouldn't extend discrimination from China."
-Sherry Zhang

"There will be selective application against Arabs and Muslims and this is pure form of discrimination."
-Nihad Awad

"We cannot continue to sweep the problems of segregation and discrimination under the rug."
-Thomas Sugrue

"Parkinson can dress it up any way he wants to, but it's still discrimination."
-Michelle Duncan

"That is the key question. What is discrimination and what are we talking about here?"
-Dr. Pat Hedberg

"They claim it's offensive and I've been accused of discrimination and harassment, believe it or not, because of this."
-Mike Gray

"I don't think (discrimination) will ever happen."
-Abu Morshed

"An exclusionary 'conference on religious dialogue' on 10 March will be nothing less than an act of religious discrimination."
-Shimon Samuels

"There will be zero tolerance for any form of discrimination."
-Mayor Gerard Couture

"The community spoke out loudly against discrimination and the MTA responded appropriately. We couldn't have asked for a better outcome."
-Michael Silverman

"What we're dealing with here is discrimination of an American citizen."
-Ken Falk

"He's decided the African-American community is more important to his re-election than the Jewish community. He doesn't care about ending discrimination."
-Bill Brady

"If this (the discrimination decision) was made by a federal court, and not a federal agency, we might look at it differently."
-Bruce Kennedy

"The Constitution does not allow for that kind of discrimination -- citizens choose their state; states do not choose their citizens -- and that's what this case all about."
-Lois Perrin

"I think there's still discrimination against women."
-Heidi Hartmann

"With the discrimination like it was, I was looking for somebody to break the color barrier."
-John Allen

"We decided a couple of religious-discrimination issues would be at the top of our agenda."
-Jim Backlin

"We've tried to look at [age discrimination] very seriously. We just have not found it."
-Tracy Koon

"The last frontier of bigotry and discrimination."
-Paul Koretz

"The chief is actively fostering an environment that promotes discrimination."
-Uzo Ohaebosim

"We do not believe that homosexual couples should be given special rights nor do we believe that they should be set aside for special discrimination."
-Jim Pfaff

"I was sad when I heard about it. It's still a reminder of what we have to do. We still have hatred and discrimination."
-Blanche Hughes

"There was one other black player at Byrd. I have never had to deal with discrimination on the baseball field before."
-Brent Smith

"Discrimination is a very delicate theme in Mexico."
-Virginia Jaramillo