Quotes About Equality

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

Civil rights cases are hard to win.

Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.

The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.

To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can pass Justice for All Civil Rights Act. We can pass Medicare for All.

Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just as important to the civil rights movement as the activists.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about it now, I would want to see how I would deal with it.

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended, and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories.

I'm proud that I can represent, within Cyborg, a couple of different groups. One being people of color, but also, Cyborg is a superhero that is in many ways disabled. So, being able to give representation from that end as well is something that's really powerful to me.

The reality is that diversity as an overall subject has to continue to be addressed onscreen. That goes beyond having a gay superhero. There should be a black superhero, a Latino superhero and, while we're at it, we still aren't seeing nearly enough women behind the scenes and as the anchors of movies.

There isn't just one kind of person that can play a superhero.