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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the u...

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She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope...

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Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, ...

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In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice po...

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Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

These stupid biases and discrimination are the reason our country is so screwed up. It's Tamil first...

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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate...

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In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outca...

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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...

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HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular ...

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Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...

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Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother ...

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It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they ho...

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It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go...

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The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determ...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think ...

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Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environme...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Lu...

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History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where...

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I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions ...

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If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, ...

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The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate agains...

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Eaton looks to the man next to him, who licks his lips before saying, “There are rules on paper and ...

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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

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Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic p...

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No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds o...

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The world since Adam has been white—and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black—and righteous. ...

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To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was bla...

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...The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subt...

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I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the fie...

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The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indee...

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External explanations of black-white differences — discrimination or poverty, for example—seem to ma...

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Thomas SowellBlack Rednecks and White Liberals

The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration...

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The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...

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For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...

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Why don’t they complain?""They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain a...

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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs o...

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For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily bea...

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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...

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To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in th...

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Ben EltonBlast from the Past

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not reg...

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