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Quotes About Equality

The #MeToo campaign is monumental. It is giving a voice to so many too scared to speak out before.
~ Elizabeth Smart
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.
~ Ruby Bridges
Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
~ Barry Jenkins
I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.
~ Shemar Moore
I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.
~ Shemar Moore
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
~ Norman Borlaug
1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of the quality of our demand and our sense of moral authority.
~ John Lewis
Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.
~ Shelby Steele
When we have people whose lives are being turned around in a negative way because they're incarcerated for either too long or for crimes that don't need incarceration, that's a moral issue for me.
~ Tony Evers
When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out those who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is. Where are you on that scale? I know where I am.
~ Anthea Butler
Men never get free from morality, only women.
~ George A. Moore
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
~ Havelock Ellis
Free markets, hard work, and morality will benefit blacks and all Americans.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
~ Jefferson Davis
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
~ Twyla Tharp
We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a Medicare for All type of program, and that's an idea whose time has come. It is the morally right thing to do.
~ Nina Turner
I believe Don't Ask Don't Tell is morally wrong, wrong for our military, and counter-productive.
~ Cal Cunningham
As long as some players are getting fined more for showing an advertisement on their boxer shorts or whatever it is than other players are for being racist then that's morally wrong and it has to change.
~ Dominic Calvert-Lewin
More law, less justice.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
~ Lindsay Duncan
So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.
~ Corrine Brown
I want to make sure the cooking industry becomes more and more diverse.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
I'm just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see is how, in the same way good male directors get a shot at creating interesting male and female characters, women do as well.
~ Karyn Kusama
I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.
~ Miriam Shor