Nothing of what was discussed at this important and moving conference was anything but real: real lives subjected to death threats, discrimination, coercion and stigmatisation – and all because the people involved think for themselves, a right that the rest of us take for granted and, when it is threatened, jealously guard.
He is one of the world's greatest comics, and in a world of terror threats, discrimination, inequality and poverty, laughter is much needed.
Hamideh said that "due to the hate spreading nationally," Muslim communities in northern Texas have also received bomb threats, death threats and discrimination against women.
We simply want equal treatment under the law and the right to live our lives without the threat of discrimination, hostility and anti-gay violence.
During the great waves of 19th-century immigration, the insistence that new arrivals adapt to Anglo-Saxon culture — and the threat of discrimination if they didn't — was crucial to their swift assimilation.
He added that the baseball research (he is a Blue Jays fan, for the record) had inspired a follow-up paper, which is in the works, about the effects of intergroup threat on discrimination.
His clothes, an outward display of his social class, transcend his race and magically erase the threat of discrimination.
Section 5 of the Act was a bipartisan effort to rectify past injustices and ensure minorities' ability to participate in elections, but the threat of discrimination still exists.
The Coptic community was shouting to the world that this massacre was part of a greater story where Christian minorities in the Middle East live under constant threat of discrimination or worse fates.
As we continue to work towards final passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) with strong bipartisan support, we urge you to take action now to protection millions of workers across the country from the threat of discrimination simply because of who they are or who they love.
Most salient, however, was the threat of discrimination in the workplace.
