Quotes About Equality

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white.

In order for New York to not only get back to where we were, but to finally fulfill our potential as the greatest city on Earth, we need people in charge who are going to fight for the working class, and not the corrupt institutions that have taken advantage of a broken system.

I've always seen our faith as an instrument to embrace our fundamental equality, before God and before our laws, and not as a license to discriminate.

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

Inspiring girls to write their stories and play their own instruments is something I'm passionate about, as it's not championed.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

Growing up a lot of people said I played like a guy. They thought it was an insult, but I was like, 'That's fine, I don't care.'

Women's football in its right is something to celebrate and the quality and the achievement of all the females I represent, it is an insult to them that we talk about women's football being a step down.

I make sure not to do anything which can be insulting for women- something very common in Punjabi films.

I don't like this word, 'Feminazis,' or 'libtard.' I don't like these words, because I feel there's no true understanding of the word 'feminism,' there's no understanding of the word 'liberal,' and I find these very derogatory and insulting.

It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

I really have aproblem with the fact that insurance companies don't see infertility as a medical condition requiring coverage. I do want there to be some pressure on the insurance companies.

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what we looked like.

Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.

Either we want to have segregation or integration. And if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black.

There can't be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.