Quotes About Equality

Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.

I'm of the mindset that God loves everyone.

I want to tell such people to grow up and change their mindset when you deal with women.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

Just because somebody works in miniature does not diminish or invalidate their contributions to the art form compared to someone who works in live action.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

The UCI have to make the decision to put in rules into women's cycling that they have in men's cycling: you know, like a minimum budget to run a women's team and that sort of thing so that it becomes more professional.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

Data do not indicate that mandatory minimum sentences keep our communities safer. Instead, mandatory minimums are disproportionately harming people and communities of color.

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

We are accountable to each other; having an equitable Minnesota benefits everyone, not just the disenfranchised.