Discrimination Quotes

• We have not ratified The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Among Women. I think 194 countries have signed onto it, but the United States has not. And CEDAW to the United Nations is what the Equal Rights Amendment or the women's equality amendment is to the United States. I think we should pass the women's equality amendment and a lot of these other fights would go away.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Country
  • Fighting
  • Discrimination

• I'm against discrimination in all forms.

  

  Brandon Marshall
  • Discrimination

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

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Kind
  • Football
  • Racism

• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Woman
  • Pressure
  • Species

• I don't encourage people to litigate when facing discrimination: It is so hard - painful and difficult. It's draining financially, emotionally, and professionally. But when you see that you could be the person who impacts the conversation in a meaningful way - or that you could inspire a few people to feel better about themselves, to speak up, to inspire others, to create this broader wave of change - I don't regret that at all.

  

  Ellen Pao
  • Change
  • Regret
  • Conversation

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

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Analysis
  • Discrimination

• Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality.

  

  Sarah McBride
  • Equality
  • Transgender
  • Restroom

• To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

  

  Evo Morales
  • Mean
  • Care
  • Selfish

• Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.

  

  Navi Pillay
  • Political
  • Poverty
  • Reflection

• When you see discrimination over and over and over and over again in your life, the more you're living it. I lived it for so long that it eventually breaks you down. I think that's where a lot of us are.

  

  Mickey Guyton
  • Life
  • Discrimination
  • Breaks

• Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Discrimination
  • Lenses

• There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Record
  • Lawyer
  • Membership

• I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Discrimination

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