Quotes About Equality

But don't men have breast and womb envy?

And remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. Only she did it backwards and in heels.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

Je dénonce les actes de racisme et de haine envers les Noirs en Ukraine et dans le monde.

Les Haïtiens sont punis pour être la première nation noire qui a aidé et appris à de nombreux pays comment obtenir leur liberté. Au fil des ans, Haïti est puni pour la libération de nombreux esclaves à travers le monde. Malheureusement, c'est pourquoi ils ne veulent pas qu'Haïti prospère.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

Social inequality only exists because laziness doesn't make an effort.

There are no differences without comparisons."

I've always thought that if little straight boys were taught that the one surefire, telltale sign of repressed homosexuality was the beating and killing of gay men—and the truth is lurking around that idea somewhere—then gay-bashing would shrivel away within a generation.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

You are undoubtedly of the opinion that men are superior to women. Esmond?" "Well, I…" "You are wrong. Eve is superior because she was created after Adam. God didn't take backward steps, so Eve must be an improvement.

When the two become the one And the inside outside, the outside in So that the male be not male nor the female female Then will you see me.

These younger composers were generally male, but then composers were almost exclusively male. Even the female composers were almost exclusively male.)

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day—would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

I remember a woman, speaking at a ceremony when Anne was given an award for National Women's Health Week. She said, "women need to work in medical research, and in applied medicine, because too many men treat women's bodies like they are just men's bodies with female parts, but our bodies are fundamentally different and need to be treated that way.

The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.