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Eddie Bernice Johnson

"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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"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."

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"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."

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

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

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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."

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

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

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

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

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"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."
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"This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it."
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"Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now."
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"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election."
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"The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented."
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"Well, I happen to believe all business is female business."
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