Quotes About Equality

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

We need to move towards a truly just and equitable society by... making sure that every Canadian - whether they're living in long-term care or they're working part-time or they're students or they're Black or they're Indigenous - whatever their circumstances, can live in dignity and security.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.

We have to find a way that every Coloradan can participate in our economic growth and feel that all the changes that are occurring are working to their benefit rather than their detriment.

While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

As a filmgoer and a filmmaker, I want to participate and tell stories of woman and man that will move us forward.

Everyone should be allowed to participate in sport, because it helps you to become more confident. That is important for women in India, because we are not always treated as equals.

If Black and African-Americans could participate in our economy at the same level that others do, it'd be a boost to GDP growth.

When I became more aware and educated on the state of youth sports and the inability for so many who want to participate, I knew I wanted to be involved.

We must find ways to encourage more professional women to participate in politics.

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

I'm as much of a homophobe as Jesus was. The people who are participating in homosexual behavior, they need to know that I love them.

There's no doubt about it that my participation in sports allowed me to compete in the business world in a very gender-neutral way.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.

Equal pay for equal work isn't, 'Here, I'll give this to you.' It's confidence, it's participation.

Traditionally in American cinema, Black men and women's participation in world wars is often not even represented at all.