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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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.
To be concerned about immigration and the economy is not racist, but I do think there is a virus of racism that runs through Ukip.
Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.
Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.
The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.
The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
Everyone who has ever asked for asylum in Slovakia was granted asylum if that person met the conditions. There was never any discrimination based on religion.
What I would say is that if someone faces discrimination, they should never back down. They should be self-confident and educate others not to have such an attitude.
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us.
I really wanted people to see that just because I'm successful doesn't mean I'm not going to be affected by racism.
I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.
Every organization has a responsibility to stamp out bullying and discrimination. From what I read and understand through various conversations, British Cycling recognize they've fallen short in a number of areas.
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others what you'd have them do unto you.
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.
My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them.
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
The Charleston shooting is a result of an ingrained culture of racism and a history of terrorism in America. It should be covered as such.
In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be.
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
'I Am Singh' is primarily about mistaken identities that led to racism post the 9/11 attacks.
Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.
The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.
Black women have a kind of advantage over white women in the workplace. They go in prepared to face some discrimination, so when it happens, they aren't shocked.
So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice
I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.
We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.
We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.
If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.
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.
Pent-up white racism did fire Mr. Trump's candidacy, and he happily fanned the flames.
Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair.
Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.
I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.
I could help a lot of people's kids that are going through racism or getting bullied. That's what I wanna do.
I support the rights of all people and oppose discrimination and intolerance against the LGBTQ community. I see this as a matter of basic human rights.
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.
Too often, customary practices and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, social status, or class are the root sources of pervasive inequality in many countries.
Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.
There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?
I don't think there should be any discrimination between TV and film actors. I think our job is to act, irrespective of the medium.
All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.
Harvey Milk gave hope to generations of gay and lesbian Americans by encouraging them to live their lives openly and to speak out against the discrimination and prejudice they faced.
An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.
In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
