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Discrimination Quotes

Bias, named plainly.

Several entries here weigh gender bias from more than one angle, noting an old boys' network alongside hazards that fall disproportionately on men in certain fields. The conversation continues in our Against collection.

Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Quotes by A. E. Housman

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

Quotes by Zainab Salbi

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

Quotes by Wilma Mankiller

Against Quotes

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Quotes by Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

Quotes by Warren Farrell

Discrimination is not done by villains. It's done by us.

Quotes by Vivienne Ming

Religious minority communities in India have endured incidents of harassment, discrimination, intimidation and violent attacks for decades, often with little hope for justice.

Quotes by Trent Franks

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Quotes by Trent Lott

Always Quotes

Sexual harassment and gender discrimination is real, it's far more pervasive than I think people have been willing to acknowledge.

Quotes by Tony West

I know from the stories of my grandparents and great-grandparents the real struggles and discrimination that Italian Americans faced when they first immigrated to America.

Quotes by Tim Ryan

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

Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.

Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

Believe Quotes

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.

Quotes by Stella Young

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

Quotes by Shirley Chisholm

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

Quotes by Sharon Needles

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

Quotes by Sepp Blatter

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

Quotes by Sepp Blatter

Black Quotes

It's so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender, class, and race.

Quotes by Sasheer Zamata

One line insists that meaningful change depends on the people affected being willing to speak up for themselves, while another points out that ordinary people, not villains, are usually responsible. Related reading lives in our Believe and Always pages.