There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

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.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

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

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.

The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.