Many socially marginalized groups can be compared with each other in their fight for equality. People seem to overlook, fear, or belittle those they perceive as “different” or “not like us.” Inequalities of opportunity can be represented in the things we read, the things we watch on television, and the things we say every day. There are several categories in which differences have been highlighted and these mainly focus on differences in ability, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality and families. The ways in which people in society may choose to deal with the discomfort they feel about these differences may include excluding individuals, attempting to "fix" the differences, ignoring them, or valorizing them. Equal rights empower and provide people with the opportunity and ability to live their lives to the full and help us all navigate the path to a common future. Usually, cases of discrimination are subtle and many times go unnoticed by both the discriminated minority and the person from the dominant culture. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 2 of the United Nations Convention, it is stated: “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether independent, fiduciary, non-self-governing or subject to any other limitation of sovereignty” (United Nations, 2011). reading......in the center of the sheet......people with disabilities. Retrieved from http://greg.quuxuum.org/journal/focht_new.htmlShimoyama, R. Matsuishi, T. (n.d.) History and context of the treatment of intellectual disabilities in the United States. Retrieved from http://www.medico-pedagogy.org/mentalretardationinusasummaryJ_Ewp.pdfLampathakis, P. (8 September 2011). Gay sex is the “sickest of sins.” Retrieved from http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/gay-sex-sickest-of-sins/story-e6frg15c-1226123472929Debats, D. Bartelds, B. (n.d.) The Structure of Human Values : A principal components analysis of the Rokeach Value Survey. Retrieved from http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/gmw/1996/dlhmdebats/c5.pdf Braithwaite, V. (1982) The structure of social values: validation of Rekeach's two-value model. Retrieved from http://vab.anu.edu.au/pubs/1/structureofsocialvalues.pdf