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“How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.”

Barbra Streisand quotes (American Producer, Singer and Actress, b.1942)

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“As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions”

Elizabeth Fee quotes

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“I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”

Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“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”

Bill Clinton quotes (American 42nd US President (1993-2001), b.1946)

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“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.”

Nelson Mandela quotes (South African Statesman First democratically elected State President of South Africa (1994), 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace, b.1918)

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“Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice”

Dwight David Eisenhower quotes (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)

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“If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality.”

William Orville Douglas quotes

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“The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.”

Tom Lehrer quotes (American Singer, Song Writer and Mathematician, was a professor of Math at Harvard who wrote many satrical tunes (Poisioning Pigeons) in the 1960s. b.1928)

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“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.”

Nelson Mandela quotes (South African Statesman First democratically elected State President of South Africa (1994), 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace, b.1918)

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“Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.”

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson quotes ( Educator, )

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