Quotes About Equality

There are a lot of BeBe Zahara Benets in Africa. It's important that our continent can move forward, and respect diversity.

There are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don't think people realize how short of a time we have been discussing this issue compared to how long this has been an issue.

Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our history and that Black history shouldn't just be segmented into one month and we just move on. This is a huge part of the fabric of our country.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.

I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

I didn't know of any homophile movements pre-Stonewall.

We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy.