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"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."

"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."

"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."

"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."

"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."

"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime."

"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."

"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian."

"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."
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"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman."

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."

"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."

"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish."

"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."

"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
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