Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Discrimination Quotes
Academic ChallengesDiscriminationGender EqualityLegal EducationWomen S Rights The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
DiscriminationEmpathyExperienceJusticeSensitivity All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.
CynicismDiscriminationInsightObservationPerception The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
DiscriminationGender EqualityInnovationPerseveranceProgress When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.
DiscriminationHuman RightsRacismSlavery 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.
DiscriminationInequalityOppressionRepresentation I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
AlienationCulture ShockDiscrimination I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example.
DiscriminationEmpathyExperienceSocial Justice Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.
ClarityDepthDiscriminationInsightPerception They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
DiscriminationGrowthLiteraturePerceptionPersonal Opinions Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
DiscriminationMarginalizationOppressionSocial Inequality Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
ConsequenceDiscriminationJusticeMoralityPrinciple No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Career ChallengesDiscriminationLegal ProfessionPerseveranceResilience Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.
ClamorDiscriminationPartisanshipTruthVoice It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
AcknowledgmentDiscriminationHistoryRacial JusticeUnity In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
