Quotes About Equality

I'm a proud Muslim. I'm proud to have a Pakistani origin. And I want this country to accept me. I want to bring to light the fact that we are all the same.

I don't really see any difference between Pakistani people and the Indians. We eat the same food, we speak the same language. I don't really see any difference.

I'm human. As human as any Indian. And every Pakistani is as human as every Indian.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

I do not put red lines on the Arab Palestinian nation.

The United States needs to stop putting Israel's wants above Palestinian rights.

I believe in the liberation of the Palestinian people.

Calling out antisemitism doesn't make me any less Palestinian.

The left cannot be complicit in the marginalisation of Palestinian people in the interest of fighting racism. We can, and we must, do much better than that.

I get messages from Palestinians and from Iranians... everyone is, like, the same.

I am keen and anxious for the safety of both the Jews and the Palestinians.

Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer?

I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

From being on a panel show, they always need the blonde airhead sat in a corner they can make fun of, and I'm here to go, 'No, we're not the punchline.'

The problem isn't that there's not enough women in panel games. The problem is there's not enough women in comedy in general.

There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.

Female standups are like hustlers. We have to be. We fight to get gigs or on to panel shows. We're made to earn it in a very different way to men.

I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.