Quotes About Equality

If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed.

In any relationship, only if both partners bring in emotional, financial commitment and honesty in equal measure, can there be harmony.

Marriage should never become an adjustment or a compromise. Both the partners should be equally happy and willing to invest their love, care, and respect in the relationship - only then it works.

Great women, in partnership with great men, will continue to take us forward.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

The Good Friday Agreement was an incredible breakthrough. But it's my view that the Hillsborough Agreement could see politics in the north come of age, and see us all move forwards on the basis of equality and partnership.

Most of my mentors in my early career were men; I'm happy to see today the partnership between the newer generation coming through and more senior women leaders helping others advance their careers.

We've got gay marriage, and civil partnerships, so what are transsexuals looking for?

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.

I want men to be asking to play great female parts!

I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.