If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn’t have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination. – Peter Dinklage
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. – Lou Gehrig
Countless black citizens in the South couldn’t vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal. – John Doar
I can’t say I’m not guilty of age discrimination when it comes to animals. Like most people I’ve walked into a shelter more than a few times and a magnetic force has pulled me toward those fluffy little puppies in the corner cage. – Jenna Morasca
Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military. – Kitty Kelley
We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers. – Jim Ramstad
No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination. – Kate Brown
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. – Mike Pence
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. – Lionel Blue
Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight. – Loretta Lynch
Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation. – John Hawkins
If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn’t eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it. – Mike Pence
What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice. – Loretta Lynch
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. – Jalal Talabani
If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn’t feel like a shock. – Mahershala Ali
As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it. – Mike Pence
Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive. – Maajid Nawaz
I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination. – Palaniappan Chidambaram
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. – Ray Stannard Baker
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one. – Robert Brady
I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. – Patrick J. Kennedy
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination. – Olympia Snowe
Racial discrimination, South Africa’s economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. – Oliver Tambo