Quotes About Equality

I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.

I think it's so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people - that's important to me.

A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it's even harder for minority and women-led companies.

I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to take their badges at the higher levels.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

White America is in the minority.

No minority should climb all over the majority.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

The natural result of people preferring one of their own race is that a minority race president will find it hard to get elected, and so it's something we should do something about and which we can do something about.

What I crave, and what I want to see on television, is when you see a minority character, not to have it being about them being black or Asian or Latino. If you watch 'Friends,' for example, it's not about a group of people being white. It's about a group of people being friends, you know? You should just let the characters exist.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.

I didn't need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who's a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.

Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution.

India is a land of minorities. Everyone belongs to some minority.

I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability. But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be.

The numbers speak for themselves as far as the hiring, firing and the lack of opportunities for minority and Black head coaches and executives in the National Football League, and we need the change.