DISCRIMINATION : All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They. (Rudyard Kipling: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1865-1936)

DISCRIMINATION : Caste makes distinction among creatures where God has made none. (Charles Sumner: U.S. statesman and Senator who, as an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, was a leader of the anti-slavery forces, 1811-1874)

DISCRIMINATION : I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. (Ellen DeGeneres: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958)

DISCRIMINATION : If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. (George D. Aiken: U.S. senator, 1892-1984)

DISCRIMINATION : In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019)

DISCRIMINATION : Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate. (Patricia H. Collins: U.S. academic specializing in race, class, and gender, Born 1948)

DISCRIMINATION : Our minds are primed for us and them . . . . Who we see as one of us determines who we let inside our circle of care and concern. This happens before conscious thought. (Valarie Kaur: U.S. activist, documentary filmmaker, lawyer, educator, and faith leader, Born 1981)

DISCRIMINATION : The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

DISCRIMINATION : What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

DISCRIMINATION : Without capitalism, the world might never have experienced racial discrimination. (Oliver C. Cox: Trinidadian-U.S. sociologist who was often misconceived as a Marxist due to his focus on class conflict and capitalism; however, Cox fundamentally disagreed with Marx's analysis of Capitalism, 1901-1974)