First Women
Richard Lawrence meets Somerset-based photographer Anita Corbin to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th 2013. Anita’s compiling a unique photographic archive of women who achieved ‘firsts’ in their...Read more“All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization”
– Gerald Durrell
Zero Discrimination Day Campaign
Storycorps: A More Perfect Union
When Theresa Burroughs came of voting age, she was ready to cast her ballot—but she had a long fight ahead of her. During the Jim Crow era, the board of registrars at Alabama’s Hale County Courthouse prevented African Americans from registering to vote....Read more“If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end”
– Bayard Rustin
Read more“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime”
– Johnny Ball
Read more“How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination”
– Barbra Streisand
