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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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"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."
"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
"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."
"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
"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."
"Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election."
"I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something."
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