Quotes About Equality

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

If you're working for a sexist jerk, you have to leave.

I guess I believe that whatever crazy things you're getting up to outside of work doesn't inherently mean that you're some kind of jerk or anything. Everyone's going to live differently.

Games are awesome. Stop letting jerks hijack them.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state.

What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.

Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

If we've endured white Jesus for this long, then folks can endure a Black Duke.

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don't come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.

I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?

The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.

I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother.

There are laws in this country to protect everyone and that includes the Jewish community.

There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.

I don't feel that Jewish people have a class.