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Letter "D" » discrimination
«Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.»
Author: Anne Tucker
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Keywords:
amounts,
ascertainable,
behavioral,
deterrent,
disadvantages,
discrimination,
double standard,
insidious,
involve,
judgments,
relate,
societal,
tangible,
value judgment
«There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.»
«Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.»
«Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient»
«I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.»
«I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, accep»
«Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice»
«I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.»
«I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
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Statesman)
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About:
Discrimination,
Life,
Opinions,
Racism
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Keywords:
African,
assurance,
at ease,
detest,
discrimination,
entitled,
fellow feeling,
hold in,
inferior,
intensely,
manifestations,
racial,
racial discrimination,
set up,
South,
South African,
South Africans,
surrounds,
violently,
white man
«The less you talk, the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity, there will be increase in your power of discrimination too.»