Quotes About Equality

The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

I support a free and open Internet.

Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from.

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

The Internet is by the people, for the people.

I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America.

You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.

Zionism needn't continue, and won't continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.

I believe that one should not interrupt the greatness of a woman who has everything going for herself until one is ready to add value to her life.

There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can't really pick it apart. It's all intertwined.

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

Racial politics in Chicago has a long history of being intertwined with the mayor's race, but I'd like to think we're past much of that.

In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to provide one. Believe me, nothing says 'I'm the best person for this job' quite like asking an employer to pay to interview you.

One of the main things I said in my job interview was that I want to develop female coaches.

I never let my gender define me but in my whole driving career I only ever did one interview not being asked about being a female.

If your company is mostly men, make sure to have women on the interview team. While you don't want to 'tokenize' someone for their identity, it's important to show potential candidates that you're making an effort.

Just because they're not humanoid doesn't mean they're not intelligent, Krisa. You can't label something an animal and just dismiss it as unworthy of respect

chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.

You know, when you come to think about it, it's a wonder women have anything to do with men at all, and no surprise that men have devised all kinds of schemes to bind women to them, like not giving them any money. If you had your choice of sleeping with a beautiful soft creature or a large hard one, which would you pick? I mean, if they both had the same amount of money?

The U.N. now says that one out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in their lifetime; we're talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet."