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Quotes About Equality

I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either at or above my level and 100-percent comfortable talking to me.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I'm horrified at the idea of intimidating someone. I think that's the opposite of what we should be doing.
~ Bettany Hughes
We should not have to experience the fear of intimidation or retaliation in the United States.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
Sexual harrassment and abuse is intolerable.
~ David Longstreth
Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
~ Richard Dawkins
Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.
~ Lucy McBath
We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.
~ David Lagercrantz
See as a Muslim myself, I have never faced any intolerance or any discrimination in any part of the country, instead I have been showered with love, but the people who say that they have faced intolerance must be given a chance to speak up, instead of muzzling their voice.
~ Raza Murad
Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.
~ Talib Kweli
There's a false concept that being gay and out in Hollywood will hurt your career. It's intrinsic homophobia. It's as if being gay is bad.
~ Perez Hilton
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
~ Roxane Gay
I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
~ Billy Dee Williams
Prosecuting Gamergate is not about justice for me or the women of Giant Spacekat. It's about introducing consequences into the equation for men that treat harassing women like a game.
~ Brianna Wu
We've heard so much about introducing the Rooney Rule but I don't hear enough conversations about putting in place things so that females can get interviews.
~ Emma Hayes
Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.
~ Jesse Andrews
Today, nobody has a problem with a women working, but every woman invariably faces casual sexism at work.
~ Nushrat Bharucha
Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.
~ Chris Gardner
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
~ Gloria Steinem
I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
~ Chris Martin
We never invest in a male; we never invest in a female. We just invest in the right entrepreneur.
~ Kirsten Green
I don't love it when people come in and say, 'We need a woman on our board,' or 'Can you invest in this new shopping app because you like to shop?' But whatever gets me in the deal.
~ Kirsten Green
When women are paid for their work and have control over how the money gets spent, they invest much more of their income than men do in their families' education and health.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
I'm not a woman in the 'Den,' I'm a Dragon, we're all there to invest, it has nothing to do with gender.
~ Deborah Meaden