Quotes About Equality

A lot of people want Trump to be impeached. I do not. Because just when you think Trump is awful, you remember Mike Pence. Mike Pence is what happens when Anderson Cooper isn't gay.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'

I was very lucky to hear the story of Harvey Milk, it was life-saving for me. I wanted to share it in case it helped others, but the story of one gay man isn't going to do it.

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

I make $7 million per year. I'm not going to be mad at a guy making $10 million. We're still millionaires.

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.

Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, 'No women over 35 can audition.' That was in the breakdown. I don't think they would do that anymore - I would like to hope that they wouldn't put that in writing - but it's mind-boggling.

To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

Fashion is much more open minded to duskier skin, but I do not think they are prejudiced in any way to fair skin either.

I think people need to be open minded to everyone.

I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.