Quotes About Equality

I own two basketball teams; one of men and women.

I wanted to be different. I wanted to address everyone. I wanted to address the hood, but also the people that was getting money. I wanted to address the men and women, the kids and the adults.

If the men in North do not mend their ways, then women will set them right.

It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.

Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

Mental health doesn't care what your name is or what you do for a living.

If you walk into A&E with a broken bone you expect it to be fixed. If you need help because you've got a mental health condition you should get that help and support.

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.

The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.

I have what some people consider to be a 'hippie' mentality.

Men need to change their mentality. Talent has nothing to do with gender. If you're making a good film, you should always support that.

When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That stereotyping existed.

I want my kids to have a balanced view. I don't want them to grow up with a close-minded corridor-vision mentality. I want them to have a good understanding of the different sections of society.

You know what, when I was a kid I said to myself my skin colour isn't going to stop me achieving what I want regardless of what colour I was, so I don't want these kids to have that mentality.

In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.

The idea of women having a complete hold on their lives is still alien in a lot of places. So, it is important that we keep telling such stories where women are shown both physically and mentally powerful.

You can be feminine and wear heels, dresses, and makeup, and still be a powerful woman - physically, mentally, emotionally.

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter.

When I was younger, I felt more like a student working with a mentor when I worked with the conductor, but now it feels more like equals.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.