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Quotes About Equality

The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.
~ Jenna Wortham
The fact that I stick up for women doesn't mean that I think all men are rapists. But that's lost somewhere in translation. Obviously I don't think that. I married one! I gave birth to two of them.
~ Jess Phillips
For people living with HIV, the knowledge that undetectable equals untransmittable is huge news, not only as a means of preventing transmission, but in breaking down the stigma that many people still experience.
~ Courtney Act
At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally reserved for someone who gives millions. We call it citizen philanthropy.
~ Charles Best
Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls.
~ Roger Scruton
In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.
~ Mona Simpson
Shining a light on issues like the gender pay gap and whether firms are imposing and meeting targets is how diversity gets pushed up the priority lists of boards. Greater transparency allows for more effective scrutiny.
~ Nicky Morgan
Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.
~ Kenneth C. Griffin
If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.
~ Winnie Byanyima
What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
~ Beth Brooke
I'm a woman. I'm black. I am passionate. I am transparent.
~ Bozoma Saint John
It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.
~ Trace Lysette
From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.
~ Stella Young
Free public transportation is the single biggest step we could take toward economic mobility, racial equity, and climate justice.
~ Michelle Wu
I have fought for public transportation.
~ Raphael Warnock
We all rely on our infrastructure system even if we don't own a car or use public transportation. It impacts our economy and our quality of life. It is a key component of addressing inequality as well as creating a level playing field for all Americans and a pathway to sustainability.
~ Michael Capuano
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
~ Catherine Deneuve
man. I know these Americans believe that "all men are created equal." I don't. I believe all men are created, period. And each man makes choices and takes action one way or another. What a man chooses to do or not to do is the only way to measure his worth. A man who chooses to love is not equal to a man who chooses not to love. A man who builds is not equal to a man who destroys. A
~ Sister Souljah
Sister Souljah
~ altercockers
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
~ Sitting Bull
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
~ Sitting Bull
under his breath with rancor and unconcealed disdain. "We hold these truths, that all men are created equal!" Momin spat on the ground and swore aloud in Bengali, forever proclaiming his disagreement. "Equal? No! Shob manush shristitay shoman? Ashombhob!" They were just infidels, deserving death and destruction. The West would never be equal to Allah. And they would never turn from their Christian false god; therefore, they must die! The Koran commanded it!
~ Skip Coryell
Witches are people.
~ Skye Alexander