Quotes About Representation

No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.

We need more women of colour in fashion, period.

There's part of me that would love to wear a ruffly collar and do a period drama, but that's not going to happen. You don't have Asians in those sorts of things.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

We need organisations like Vote Leave to operate permanently to give a voice to those who otherwise won't be heard.

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.

The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!

God is everywhere, except where he has a delegate.

Built up by the middle classes to hold their own against royalty, sanctioning, and, at the same time strengthening, their sway over the workers, parliamentary rule is pre-eminently a middle-class rule. The upholders of this system have never seriously maintained that a parliament or a municipal council represent a nation or a city.

We are beginning to see that government by majorities means abandoning all the affairs of the country to the tide-waiters who make up the majorities in the House and in election committees; to those, in a word, who have no opinion of their own.

Para Shen, un vestido no era un mero trozo de tela, sino una imagen llena de significados y de asociaciones.

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

Because how dare we write our own stories, in our own voices?' CaZZ answers. 'True that,' Tanya says. 'Banning our books would be their way of erasing us, of making us — and the world we live in — invisible,' CaZZ says.

It's a question that begs an answer, and yet there is no clear and satisfying answer, except to say that this aura of male freedom belongs likewise to most representations of the world and of our human experience within it, and that as women we grow accustomed to translating it into something we ourselves can recognise.

I mistook you for a metaphor.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

Shiv Sena is interested only in Marathi votes and not the Marathi manoos.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

I have two basic votes before I vote: is it constitutional, and is it in the interests of my people. If the answer is yes to both of them, then I vote for it, and I don't care who authored it.

I feel the Conservatives are doing really well both in attracting votes from British Indians and also having successful British Indians in the party.