Quotes About Equality

The first role that I got on Broadway was supposedly for a white man. But I had some producers who fought for me and allowed me to come in.

The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why I say we have not ended racial caste in America; we've merely redesigned it.

There is no opposition between efficiency and justice; on the contrary, an institution run by those who actually do the work is likely to be more effective than one run by interchangeable exploiters who often lack any specific expertise in what they are supposedly managing.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

I don't think a man should try to suppress a woman just because he's married to her.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to offer.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

They've changed the name from white supremacy to white separatists, to white nationalists, to alt-right. It's the same thing. A rose by any other name is still a rose.

Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.

Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.

White supremacy is deeply entrenched in our nation's DNA.

If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.