Quotes About Equity

We really pride ourselves on the notion that what makes our program special is that we really do our very best to make sure that everything we do is culturally responsive and relevant.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

I remember when I got my Equity card doing the Scottish play at the Public Theater with Angela Bassett and Alec Baldwin. Alec thought I should just be Butler Harner, but I thought it would make people laugh if they had to call me Butler.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

If cricketers from remote cities can play for India, then why can't Test cricket go to remote places? The idea is to promote the game.

My administration will continue to fight to ensure every last student in Connecticut receives a high-quality education, whether in person or remotely.

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.'

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

What needs to change, really, is that we need better representation behind the camera. We need better representation among the people who tell the stories or the people who greenlight the movies.

We must work harder to lessen inequalities. Only by doing so can we speak with credibility and moral authority to other countries and the People's Republic of China.

I think that if companies build for diversity from the beginning from the ground up, that's definitely the ideal state for how to build diversity into your company.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.

Improving food security is critical in ensuring that higher education opportunities remain accessible for all.

In order to have a meaningful impact, companies should value diversity and inclusion from Day One.

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.

The government should not do everything for everybody all the time, but it should provide basic services to everyone who needs them. Education ought not be contingent on income or where you live. Neither should health.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

when we talk about justice, we have to, in my view, understand that there is no justice when so few have so much and so many have so little.