Quotes about Discrimination

She was made to stand in a garbage can for twelve hours, as the other detainees demanded that she confess her own "homosexual tendencies.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the eyes of the God we worship, this belief tends to permeate society and everyone suffers.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.