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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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"Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace."

"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."

"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."

"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."

"Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now."

"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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