We went through all this as kids from two countries who fell in love and got married. Regular, basic, people.
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William Kunstler: Of course, because you took that black guy and you made him a sympathetic character. Judge Julius Hoffman: Mr. Kunstler, I have lived a a very long time, sir, and you're the first person ever to suggest that I have discriminated against a black man! Leonard Weinglass: Then let the…
A gay Missouri police officer who won a "historic" $20 million judgment in a sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit alleging he was told to "tone down your gayness" by a police commission board member has reached a settlement with St. Louis County for half the amount a jury awarded him.
This is the worst kind of discrimination. The kind against me!
Only people who've been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts.
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. This policy shall be put into effect as rapidly as possible, having due regard to the ti…
Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. Nobody ever thought that that's what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, hey we have things called le…
People of color have been marginalized for too long. District Attorneys dismiss their murders at the hands of the police. Employers punish those who take a knee. The media ignores and demonizes them—even when they are victims.
If you had 50 Negroes who were willing to sit in the restaurant, go to jail, be beaten, have cigarette ends stuffed down their neck, have their hair clipped, have their hair burned, if they would merely sit, that institution, that restaurant could be changed in a few days.
From 1955 until 1963, the Negro people's attention was given to those things which most highly revealed the basis of their revolt. And the key word is dignity. The one place where it was clear that one was not being treated with dignity was in public accommodations, because they had to come up again…
[W]e must remember that we cannot hope to achieve democracy and equality in such a way that would destroy the very kind of society which we hope to build. If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we m…
You know, I lived in this country at a time when we had segregation. I was in the middle of all the civil rights fights in the '60s and the '70s. And thank God we've gotten rid of official discrimination.
The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite. That's why we…
Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.
The hood made me realise that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn’t do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programmes and part-time jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crim…
Injuries don’t discriminate between cogs and barons.
— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Justine Juel Gillmer, Veil, Madeleine Mantock, imdb.com
When one starts poor, as most do in the race of life, free society is such that he knows he can better his condition; he knows that there is no fixed condition of labor, for his whole life. I am not ashamed to confess that twenty five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat…
If February is Black History Month and March is Women’s History Month, what happens the rest of the year? Discrimination.
[Ending racial discrimination in jury selection] can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
If you refuse a service to certain a group of people because of their identity, that's discrimination. Remember that religion was also one justification for refusing to serve African Americans, refusing to hire women.