Quotes About Representation

We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

I hope that any gay kids see me as beacon of light, not just in sport but in general.

If I can play, and change the mind of one person about being a Muslim player and having a beard, then I'll feel as if I've done my job.

I am proud to have played so many non-urban characters because I feel the heart of real India beats in the non-urban areas.

Personally, I think what's happening in my beautiful country is embarrassing, but I also know that Trump doesn't speak for the majority of us.

I wanted to have lots of characters in 'Bebop' without white skin, and if people weren't used to that, well, maybe it would even make them think a little bit about it.

As a person in the LGBT community, I feel like I've begun to do my job.

I want to speak on behalf of the American people because the American people have been the one that have endured violence.

You have to tell the people that you want to serve what it is you believe and what you are going to do on their behalf.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Even I as an individual cannot talk on behalf of the entire industry.

These people I cover, I want to do right by them. Doing right by them doesn't always mean agreeing with me or being happy with me, but it means being fair to them and giving their voice space.

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

I take it personally when people belittle our employees and misrepresent our record as an employer.

Films made by women belong to the history of cinema; it's just that we get erased pretty quickly.

I want little black girls, little black boys to know that they can be themselves because they do belong for who that they are.

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

When the nation sees differently, it enhances its capacity to act differently. From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall, America has gradually expanded who's included when the country speaks of "We the People.

the people are intelligent, the people are just, and in time these characteristics must have an effect on their Representatives.

His larger argument was that a president should not simply defer to the will and wishes of the Congress or the judiciary. Instead, Jackson was saying, the president ought to take his own stand on important issues, giving voice as best he could to the interests of the people at large.

He is the representative of no constituency, but of the whole people. When he speaks in his true character, he speaks for no special interest. If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when its President is of such insight and caliber.