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| Jag ser det som en plikt som jag var skyldig, inte bara för mitt folk, utan också för mitt yrke, till advokat och till rättvisa för alla människor, att skrika mot denna diskriminering som i huvudsak är orättvist och motståndare till hela grunden för den inställning till rättvisa som är en del av den tradition av juridisk utbildning i detta land. Jag trodde att att ta upp ett motstånd mot denna orättvisa jag var upprättar de utsattas värdighet vad som borde vara ett hedersvärt yrke. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Sommetider føler jeg mig diskrimineret, men det gør mig ikke vred. Det overrasker mig bare. Hvorledes kan nogen nægte sig selv fornøjelsen af mit selskab? Det fatter jeg ikke. | Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) |
| How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. | Barbra Streisand (1942-) |
| In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. | Shirley Chisholm (1924-1924) |
| Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. | Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) |
| All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. | Earl Warren (1891-1974) |
| Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. | Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) |
| The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretence of religious or political conviction, are no different...These obsessions cripple b | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| I have no race prejudice I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, accep | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. | Earl Warren (1891-1974) |
| As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions | Elizabeth Fee |
| How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. | Barbra Streisand (1942-) |
| Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. | Mordecai Wyatt Johnson |
| If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality. | Justice William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) |
| Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination | Andrea Dworkin (1946-) |
| In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. | Shirley Chisholm (1924-1924) |