Quotes About Equality

We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

Our brothers and sisters in the trans community, they showed up to every one of our marriage marches when it wasn't necessarily what they needed. So we have to be there for them, use our lessons learned in the marriage fight - how to win when it's difficult, how to change minds that are difficult to change.

I have a mother. I have a wife. I have a daughter. I have sisters. I can see just in my experience in my life, where sometimes they have been just put to the side in some of the things that they do.

All of us have mothers, sisters, daughters at home and it is our responsibility to protect them and make them aware of their rights.

We know, from our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, our friends, that our strength comes - female strength - comes in all kinds of forms.

I have 3 sisters, a daughter, and a son with my girlfriend, and a feminist mom who raised me right.

More and more Republicans are recognizing and respecting the essential dignity of individuals who are gay and deserve the full rights of citizenship, just like their straight brothers and sisters.

It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

We're a comedy site and have made fun of every single race, religion, creed and gender. We've made fun of it equally.

There have always been men of all background and ethnicities on my father's job sites. And long before it was commonplace, you also saw women.

SuprNova will be for the beginners. It's easier to use than most sites out there and we want everybody to be able to use it.

Having L.G.B.T. people sitting in the room while decisions are being made, and sitting there as peers, will shift the conversation.

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

If we were all sitting around as different races and as different religions, if you were a real friend of these people, you would bust on them all.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

The Harvey Weinstein scandal was a clear indicator of the situation in Hollywood, and I cannot say that it doesn't happen in Bollywood.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.