Quotes About Equality

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

Every single girl in the world has had to fight to have herself heard, to have space, and to have a self in societies that try their best to deny them all three.

We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

Ive lived and worked in developing countries so Im particularly interested in helping women in oppressive societies. Our problems can pale in comparison to theirs, the more we can do to empower them, the better off all women will be.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.

I'm just being myself, honestly. I know society puts it, Oh, this is masculine and this is feminine. I don't put myself in categories.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society.

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.

I feel like in New York, we could of course open up more bike lanes, but I think it's even more important to create access for people to run, because I think it's more open to people of all socio-economic backgrounds. I think it's even more of an equalizer, in terms of sports.

I'm a huge feminist, I majored in sociology at college, and I care about what I put into the world.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

We are - each and every one of us - unlearning misogyny. It's going to take some time. But be aware and active of your prejudices. Notice when they kick in and resist. Fight to stay soft and open. Step back and squint hard.