Quotes About Equality

God is the same God for everybody: those in the church and those in the world.

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

A1 Ring is a circuit where no one can test, so all teams are in the same boat.

My one wish for humanity is that everyone can become the person they were meant to be - what are the barriers to that? Often it's crushing poverty or certain circumstances.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.

I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to rejecting the Constitution.

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.