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Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.

~David Boies

Topics: Away Children Discrimination Gay Generation Grandchildren Grown Just Knowing Learned Lesbian Like Living My Generation People See Unlike Up Us Were Who You

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When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Against Blanket Discrimination Islam Politicians Propaganda Propose Terrorists Western

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While Congress did not, to my knowledge, calculate aggregate dollar values for the nationwide effects of racial discrimination in 1964, in 1994 it did rely on evidence of the harms caused by domestic violence and sexual assault, citing annual costs of $3 billion in 1990 and $5 to $10 billion in 1993.

~David Souter

Topics: Aggregate Annual Assault Billion Calculate Caused Citing Congress Costs Did Discrimination Dollar Domestic Effects Evidence Knowledge Nationwide Racial Rely Sexual Values Violence While

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We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

~David Souter

Topics: Affirmative Caused Conduct Defense Discrimination Employer Hold Liable Looking Subject Supervisor Vicariously Victim Well

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Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

~Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Topics: Bench Call Critical Discrimination Diversity Feels Get Inequality Judges Like Need Out See Subtleties Treatment Understand Unfair Who Willing You

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People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Almost Because Been Complacency Discrimination Housing Over People Policies Signs Still Wage Water

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Attacking racism and discrimination is a very important way to work against radicalisation.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Against Attacking Discrimination Important Racism Very Way Work

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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Beasts Beings Bought Branded Burden Discrimination Fellow Human Human Beings Many Owned Racism Slavery Sold Unfair Were Xenophobia

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I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

~Donald Trump

Topics: Act Ban Based Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Act Discrimination Idea Include Like Orientation Rights Sexual Simple Straightforward Would

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At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: Afflicted Children Clinton Comfort Defense Discrimination Donald Donald Trump Facing Families Federal Fund Her Hillary Hillary Clinton Home Justice Lawsuit Make Met Minority None Out Own Refusing Rent Safety Same Same Time Seek Time Trump Truth Where

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