Quotes About Equality

I always get amazed as to how we always need to have someone as the best of something. Why can't we have two people as the best at something?

There are infinite combinations that people can experience, because no two people are alike, and no two people's identities should be expected to be alike. I mean, we see it in fashion: one size does not fit all. And I think it's, you know, completely ridiculous that we've expected people's identities to be one size fits all.

When you have two people who are the smart girls, then the 'smart' ceases to exist; they're just women who are smart.

The approach of recognizing marriage between two people, without limitations, responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society.

How could anybody possibly have a problem with two people falling in love and finding happiness together?

Nobody remembers young Kasturba... Once I called Basu Bhattacharya and told him 'I am only getting roles of a mother.' He told me, 'There are only two people who can play young and old with equal ease, you and Sanjeev Kumar. So, don't feel bad about it.'

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Apart from democracy, globalisation and economic liberalism is our 20th century area of commonality with the U.S., the burgeoning numbers of skilled Indian workers in the U.S. and the outsourcing of American jobs to Indians who never even had to leave their desks, makes us feel that the relationship can eventually be a two-way street of equals.

Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street!

I'm big when it comes to respect. But it's a two-way street, in my eyes.

You can't put the blame squarely on one person. Casting couch is not just about one person who says 'come and compromise.' The other person is also willing to compromise. It's always a two-way street.

If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.

There's room for Spike Lee's movies; there's room for Tyler Perry's movies. There's room for classics with an all black cast. There's room for all of it as long as we don't try to make any one piece define us as a race.

The only time my Dad ever said I might have not gotten something because of how I look was when I auditioned for Tyler Perry's 'Meet the Browns.' My dad didn't think I was 'black enough' for the show. My dad isn't the most politically correct person.

We are not humans because we've invented a different type of brain cell, a different type of brain chemical. We are the same basic building blocks as even a fruit fly.

Repealing the Eighth Amendment is about women who don't want to be pregnant. It's not about a certain type of woman, a certain age of woman - we all known sisters and mothers who have chosen to go on with a pregnancy and those who haven't.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys.

All of the men on my staff can type.

In the beginning, all of us got 'women type' stories. Like covering the first lady instead of the president.

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.