Quotes About Equality

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.

I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.

Over the years, we have been conditioned that certain communities need to be looked upon in a certain typical way. So I think we need to question the logic behind it. 'Mulk' is going to question that logic - and where did it start and why did it start and the need to change it immediately.

We have to look beyond what we see as the typical, the 'normal package,' and just see people as who they are. We all have to learn and get along a little better in society.

Indian men need to break the typical mentality. I've lived abroad and now that I'm here, I see a huge difference.

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.

We are a country where the ancestors of slaves and newcomers escaping tyranny and violence can rise to the highest positions in the land.

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative. You can be fair to people.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

There is no such thing as ugly.

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

I don't play the ugly game, I think everyone is beautiful and I see it in me now more and more.

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

There was an obvious display of blatant sexism when I couldn't get signed. They didn't say I was ugly. They didn't say that they didn't like the music. They said I was too old! At 26! So Badly Drawn Boy, Doves, Elbow, James Blunt - you can be a gnarly old beardy bloke with a bit of a paunch and that's all right?

On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.

I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.