Quotes about Discrimination
They knew that in the 1970s the Indian Health Service of the U.S. government admitted that thousands of Native women had been sterilized without their informed consent. Some called it a long-term strategy for taking over Indian lands, and others said it was the same racism that had sterilized black women in the South.
- Gloria Steinem
it was just that prejudiced people linked together things they didn't like.
- Gloria Steinem
if you've experience discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognise it in another.
- Gloria Steinem
Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.
- Mike Pence
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
- Desmond Tutu
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
- Pablo Picasso
I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.
- Barack Obama
In addition to sponsoring the Defend Israel Act, I am a proud co-sponsor of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which will protect the state of Israel from politically motivated attacks in the United Nations and economic discrimination here in the United States.
- Jacky Rosen
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.
- Tina Fey
There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
- Robert Frost
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
- Frederick Douglass