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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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"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
"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."
"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."
"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."
"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
"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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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"I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something."
"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."
"During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service."
"Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace."
"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."
"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."
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