Quotes About Equality

The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.

'Astitva' is all about a woman's search for her identity in a male-dominated world. It is not a feminist kind of approach. Rather, I have tried hold a mirror to the men in our society.

The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.

I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.

We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.

We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.

I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

Men think of women as people who just augment their experience. Women's value isn't a given. But getting to know some incredible women, and even learning to value myself, it's a shame that we aren't celebrated, loved, and cherished as a default. A lot of stupid dudes are really missing out on a much more interesting experience of life.

It really pisses me off when people look at women who are older and are not in a relationship as somehow sad or missing something, because they certainly don't look at men that way.

My whole life had been bands that were men-centric - and that's a great thing, I know a lot about how to handle myself - but I think I was missing something.

I never had any question about the direction we were going in at the Girl Scouts. We shared our mission and research with all levels of leaders from the very beginning - a concept I created, using cups and saucers, called 'circular management.' Everyone was on a team; there were no superiors or subordinates. There was respect for all people.

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

We've always been about empowering people who feel like us and come from the communities that we come from and want to believe in our mission.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

Our mission is to serve women of color and serve them deeply.

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

I don't want it to be a mission, but of course I always love to see more diversity in comics. I always love to see more women.

To empower the women in rural areas, we have started something called Mission Shakti.

I connect deeply with SAVE's mission and I realize it doesn't matter which specific group you're fighting for, that everyone deserves equality, everyone deserves safety, and everyone deserves to be able to live their lives free of hate, fear and discrimination.

For me it's very important to think about AI's impact in the world, and one of the most important missions is to democratize this technology.

It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.