Sentence examples for lived through discrimination from inspiring English sources
Yet we have lived through discrimination once and do not have the luxury of hiding under the guise of stupidity.
Living through discrimination over the past several decades has refined our skills and made our tongues razor sharp.
Each happy hour I lived through again".
I've personally lived through gender discrimination, sexual harassment, toxic colleagues, being passed over for a promotion by a man 10 years my junior with no relevant experience, and being told I was the "B" word when I was doing exactly what my male colleagues were doing, and getting a promotion for it.
"The power and potential of black people, allies ― especially in the climate that we're in now ― to help ensure that institutions that have over a long period of time lived through adversity, discrimination, difficult circumstances and are still doing the important work of serving their communities, investing in their communities," he said.
It's understandable that having lived through so much discrimination, gay people of Lundstedt's age are wary of entering a care system largely inhabited by old heterosexuals.
The attempt by the Republican-dominated general assembly in North Carolina to tighten voting channels is especially worrying for older black residents who lived through the blatant discrimination of the Jim Crow laws.
He lived through the irrational fears and discrimination and through the activism that led to government money and medical breakthroughs.
"You don't understand discrimination and oppression unless you've lived through it," says Robinson, an attorney for the Provosts.
The women who first broke into "it's a man's world" jobs in the 1970s and have lived through a transformation in attitudes to childcare, sexuality and discrimination now face yet another frontier.
