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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 |
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. |
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. |
Dalai Lama (1935-) |
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination |
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Bill Clinton (1946-) |
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. |
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. |
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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. |