#discrimination

Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. ↗

— Vaughn Walker

#discrimination #gay-rights #heterosexuality #homosexuality #law

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. ↗

— Lester Maddox

#breeds #discrimination #freedom #gives #greatness

Our nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism, which in practical effect put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ↗

— William Brennan

#attitude

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so. ↗

— Bobby Rush

#discrimination #eliminate #feel #legal #may

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it! ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#call #critical #discrimination #diversity #feels

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#god #racism #religion #religion

I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these acquisitions; but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profit of the chosen few. And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they, and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded their's. When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned? ↗

— Mary Shelley

#discrimination #humanity #diet

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#bank #everybody #going #got #interested

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#already #black #discrimination #due #hatred

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. ↗

— Earl Warren

#education #federal #law #local #must