Quotes About Equality

Whatever character I play, I want to inspire. I don't want to just be the girlfriend or be the wife.

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

I don't know if I feel a responsibility to encourage women, I just do! Yes, I think all of us chicks should be inspired and create! In whatever way that inspiration comes, we should shine! Honestly, I feel the same way about men.

Even though I am a woman boxer, I am not just inspiring women; I hope I am inspiring boys as well.

I'm setting up a fund to empower girls and women to speak up - on all issues, not just sexual harassment. For me, it's about inspiring women to come together.

I definitely hope that I'm inspiring a lot of different female artists to run with the boys.

To see how far female wrestling has come is just inspiring and incredible.

I was 10 when the Equal Pay Act was passed. It was pretty inspiring stuff.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

German predominance is not all-encompassing. In foreign affairs and military matters, for instance, France and Britain still play a much bigger role. But across a large swathe of European policy, Germany has become much more than a first among equals.

I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it.

We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.

We need to instill the values that are important for future generations, and above all we have to show boys how to respect women.

My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

We need a world class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

I believe that feminism needs to teach more girls about how to make institutional changes and how to further engage men and boys into being our allies.

It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.

Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.