If you’re choosing somebody that doesn’t have the competence, but because it’s a young guy, or it’s a lady or if it’s a man, it’s a positive discrimination and I won’t push that.
We continue to work on policy to end discrimination against people with criminal records.
You know the discrimination: African-Americans couldn’t go to certain schools, they couldn’t use certain restrooms, there were other kinds of routine biases against them.
Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.
There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling… we go way back. We’ve got history.
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
Personally, as an artiste, I never do any discrimination. If I am offered a ‘Golmaal 4,’ I’ll run and do it.
Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination – these must become standard global operating conditions.
Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
We are fortunate to employ a wealth of diverse individuals throughout our family of companies, all of whom are important to us – the only criteria on which they are judged is the quality of their job performance; we do not tolerate discrimination in any form.
I’ve never been discriminated against, but I have witnessed discrimination. I was talking to a director and asked why one of my friends didn’t get a particular part, and he specifically told me it was because she just had a baby and it was hard to see her as sexy.
Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.
I hope that anyone facing or experiencing discrimination will, first of all, take to heart that this is not their fault, and they are not alone in this. Secondly, I hope they find ways to plug into communities to help prevent negative feelings of discrimination from festering.
If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow ‘second class’ that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.
All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.
Mrs. Parks’ act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
I know from firsthand experience that claims of non-existent voter fraud are used to raise fears, steamroll facts, and overcome common sense, resulting in laws that have nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination.
The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination and ensured that Britain is one of the safest places in the world in which to go to work.
There is so much discrimination towards women in Haryana.
We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.
Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many ‘intelligent’ systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to.
We cannot allow our diplomatic relationship with China to lead to any discrimination against Canadians.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
I am very much opposed to forcing anyone to violate their conscience or their religious beliefs, and of course, I’m very much opposed to discrimination.
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
I saw the discrimination that was happening towards Middle Easterners, Muslims and other brown people who had nothing to do with 9/11. It suddenly felt like a duty of mine to talk about some of the crazy things that were going on and make fun of how stupid it was.
The prospect of ideological discrimination in higher education shouldn’t come as a surprise.
I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.
I don’t think there’s anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
Every child in America deserves to be in a safe environment that is free from discrimination.
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.
My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.
When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the incident is, it has to be brought to the attention of people like me and also the law enforcement agencies.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Since I was a teenager I have been standing up to antisemitism, racism and discrimination in all its forms.
I have been around for 33 years and I don’t have a filmy background. I don’t know if I am an insider or an outsider but I have never felt any discrimination.
Because of network neutrality rules, activists can turn to the Internet to bypass the discrimination of mainstream cable, broadcast, and print outlets as we organize for change.
I oppose discrimination against homosexuals, but I do not support them, either.
I’ve run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
We have to take a greater stand against discrimination of all kinds.
JACL has always been at the very forefront of making sure citizens’ civil rights remain intact. They fight wholeheartedly against discrimination, prejudice and racial bias and they always provide a calm voice during turbulent times.
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
At my direction, the Department’s Office for Civil Rights remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.
I think that… discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.
Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
