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"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."
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"It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point."

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

"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."

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

"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."

"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."

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

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

"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."
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"I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run."

"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."

"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."

"The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was."

"Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome."

"It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think."

"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that."

"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role."
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