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Quotes About Equality

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.
~ Segolene Royal
We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.
~ Andrea Riseborough
I really don't care about what anyone says unless they are also gender-nonconforming. Then I really listen. I love the solidarity felt between us gender failures.
~ Ezra Furman
I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.
~ Matt Haig
I have many friends who had kids solo, who adopted, who used surrogates - no one was judging them - it's a new world!
~ Dylan Lauren
I saw Jennifer Batten do a cool guitar solo before I ever saw any other girl do a cool guitar solo.
~ Nita Strauss
With my first high school band ever, we would have these breaks in the song for idiotic solos, solos that were un-tasteful and would be shredding, but I needed to put them in there, and I realize now it's because we were playing shows with a whole bunch of bands that were all male.
~ Julien Baker
We need a new model of social protection. Let us accept that jobs are not the magic solution - and that in a globalised market, job guarantees are a false promise. Let us accept flexible labour, too. But in return, let us have a society in which everybody has a right to basic security and a more equal access to other insurance-based schemes.
~ Guy Standing
Rather than teach women how to negotiate with sexists or shrink themselves down to 'likeable' size, perhaps the solution would be for employers to stop being sexist. In the meantime, women will continue to be blamed for their lower salaries.
~ Kirsten Powers
The most successful apps have taken a societal problem and built an accessible and democratic solution.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
~ Jane Rule
The solution is to change the cake recipe, and that's the way it is with government. We can start adopting policies that work and that encourage economic growth. If you got incentives for encouraging big business development but not small or medium business development, it's not going to work. It needs to work for all three.
~ Tim Griffin
I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I can to be part of the solution.
~ Megan Rapinoe
The simple fact is there are no laws you can pass to stop people racially abusing black footballers. So the solution is to come up with something that doesn't make people want to abuse black footballers in the first place.
~ John Barnes
The solution for piracy is to redefine piracy. Make things possible for everyone, without being labelled it as a crime.
~ Peter Sunde
I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.
~ Robert Shapiro
I believe that conservative solutions can help families of every race, every economic background, and every town in Oklahoma.
~ James Lankford
Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.
~ Opal Tometi
WCC is not an arbitrator, it's a collection of people who represent and protect the interest of women in cinema. We are an organisation that facilitates solutions for a just work space and don't see ourselves as arbitrators of justice.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
We have come a long way in terms of equality for every race, sex and creed in this nation. We still have a ways to go to before we are there for everyone, but we must find peaceful and meaningful solutions that offer positive outcomes for all.
~ Jeff Van Drew
I remain mindful that the role of a judge is a limited one and that judges can't solve every problem. But at the same time, judges play a crucial role in safeguarding liberty and protecting the rights of all citizens.
~ David Stras
If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be used against humanity - the choice on how we use technology is ours.
~ Sharan Burrow