Quotes About Equality

Why can't there be just one place for gay kids, where we don't have to hide who we are? Hell, straight people have the whole rest of the world! They go around holding hands and kissing and talking about 'my-girlfriend-this' and 'my-boyfriend-that.' And they say we shove our lifestyle in their faces? That's a laugh!

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.

I think … you know how they say no two snowflakes are ever alike?" She nods. "Well, I don't think that's true. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike … and I think a lot of people are alike too.

just cool it with the anti-semitic remarks.

Hollywood had revealed itself in countless ways as one of the most hypocritical capitalist enclaves in the world, with a preening surface attitude advocating progressivism, equality, inclusivity and diversity—except not when it came down to inclusivity and diversity of political thought and opinion and language.

The Bigelow tweets now crested with "I still believe that if 'The Hurt Locker' had been directed by a man it would not have won the Oscar for best director." I liked the definitiveness of this proclamation.

Everyone has to be the same, and have the same reactions to any given work of art, or movement or idea, and if you refuse to join the chorus of approval you will be tagged a racist or a misogynist. This is what happens to a culture when it no longer cares about art.

rare post-gay film in which no one is tortured about being gay, no one gets bullied, no one is ashamed, no one has tearfully passionate coming-out scenes, and there's no gay suffering at all—there's a murder, but it's over money. And isn't this, in our new acceptance of gay lives and equality, whether black or white, the more progressive view?

God is not the tribal deity of one group of "chosen" people. God is not for us and against all others. God is for us and for them, too. God loves everyone everywhere, no exceptions.

stay Christian while rejecting supremacy and embracing solidarity instead.

they continue to perpetuate patriarchy and proclaim a patriarchal universe.

Each white person gets to be considered on their own terms, and every other group must answer as a whole for the crimes of the one or the few."1

a patriarchal religion with a violent past it has yet to acknowledge and address, a haven for authoritarian leaders and the followers who serve them, happy to exploit the labor and enjoy the adulation of women, people of color, and sexual minorities, but defiant against accepting them as equal partners in ministry.

As the Navajo and Christian activist Mark Charles explains, when citizens of the thirteen British colonies composed the Declaration of Independence, among their complaints against King George was that he didn't allow them to apply the Doctrine of Discovery to the people of the lands to their west.22 The Declaration described the indigenous peoples as "merciless Indian savages," clearly not counted among the "all men" whom God supposedly "created equal.

These emerging Christian leaders realize that if their message isn't good news for the poor, a message of liberation for the oppressed, it isn't the same message Jesus proclaimed.

We saw how Christian Zionism perpetuates a simple but terribly dangerous theological idea, an idea that Christian missiologist Lesslie Newbigin called "the greatest heresy in the history of monotheism," the idea that God chooses some people for exclusive privilege, leaving everyone else in a disfavored (or we might say "dis-graced") status.14 They are the other. They don't belong here. They are in the way. Their rights don't count.

Savant, doesn't it strike you as somewhat…hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves?

The hawk and the mouse are the same," Warrick said, peering into the future.

Workers. He remembered how his father had reacted to the word. "Next you'll want to call them employees. They are slaves!" Ulf had thundered as they stood in the overseer's office back on Hagal. "They have no rights.

once you get past the scales and the blindfold, Justice is a woman with a sword.

Rest assured, when the game is over, the queen and pawn go back into the same box.

Whoever said you can't have a revolution without the French should be guillotined.

I submit that the true test of progress is not the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few, but the elevation of a people as a whole.