#discrimination

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. ↗

— Eliot Engel

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If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

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Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. ↗

— Alexis Herman

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It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. ↗

— John Conyers

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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. ↗

— Lou Gehrig

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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

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Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#beat #because #been #big #boy

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

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I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

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