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discrimination

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The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.

The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart.

The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.

The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means.

That which discriminates; mark of distinction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination. Betty Friedan

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. John Roberts

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. Jimmy Carter

Let it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination. Bill Watterson

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it. George Orwell

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