Quotes About Equality

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.

People are so used to men playing these amazing roles that they sometimes can't even see that there is no reason it has to be a man other than it was written that way - this is true for diversity in general.

No one should be written off because of their background. This is a moral proposition but it is also an important political lesson.

I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay - and raising a son in particular - I'm looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen.

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

This is the greatest country under the sun. But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty, cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

The transgender bathroom thing - it's just so obvious that people are scared of what they don't understand. It's like, 'I don't want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.'

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.

There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.