Quotes About Equality

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

Merit should count more than academic background.

I judge people based on merit, on personality.

I'm here to govern for everybody and I hope that people judge me on my merits and what I can do.

If you, as a company, can get a deal that I, as a company, cannot get, you can compete with me but not on the merits, because your tax burden is not the same as mine.

All players have equal duties and merits and share the reward and sometimes the blame.

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

When I was growing up, there were times I had to compete against boys in tae kwon do, and I'd show them right away that I wasn't someone to mess with.

A guy can try something and not be successful, and it's just about him. But when you're a person of color, when you're a woman, when you're a woman of color in particular, you mess it up, and other people get tarred by your decision-making. You never act alone.

My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

Fashion is one industry that can really change things around for young boys and girls and make them feel like they are not left out. It can send a message that one doesn't have to look a certain way to be considered more beautiful or fashionable.

I'm just sending a message to women that you can be anything you want to be.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.

There are no apologies for being a female in heavy metal and especially not in 2019.

Some people dig jazz, some people dig classical music, some people dig rock. Everyone is so concerned about who they like. They always say, 'This guy is the best,' 'No, this guy is the best.' But I think everyone is great. I really don't have barriers to any type of music. I could listen to everything from metal to classical music to anything else.

I agree that it's absurd to call a category of music 'female-fronted metal,' because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don't sound anything alike.

The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.