Quotes About Equality

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

All I want for my career is I want to work with the best directors and I want to be treated like a Caucasian man would be.

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.

I think at times I get treated a bit unfairly, but then so do other athletes in Australia, and I feel like things can change.

Gay relationships have historically not been treated the same as straight relationships.

I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

I want to empower girls so that they are treated as equals to the boys in the country.

I want to be treated like everyone else.

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

We've made some incredible progress, but there are still steps we need to take to ensure LGBT Americans are treated as equal citizens.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

We are committed to ensuring that immigration is not further criminalized and that all immigrants are treated with dignity and provided with a path to citizenship.

Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Some people feel that because you are black you will never be treated fairly, and that you should voice your opinions, be militant about them. I don't feel this way. You can't convince a fool against his will.

I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.