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"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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"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."
"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
"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."
"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian."
"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."
"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
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"Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far."
"I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something."
"Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace."
"Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now."
"I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it."
"Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace."
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