Quotes About Equality

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.

If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.

I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn't mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.

I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't really matter to me. I've already got my friend who's going to be the donor, so that's taken care of. Just give me a few years and we'll go from there.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

I feel like I'm the voice for my generation, especially for women.

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.

I've always considered myself a feminist. But, like a lot of women of my generation, I didn't think we had to fight for it. I thought it was all done. I took so much for granted.

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

My journey has really been trying to normalize girls loving girls.

Whether you say I'm too black, I'm not black enough, this is me. I hope people realize that my journey to love doesn't have to be any different just because my skin is.

During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.

I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.

People, whether they be male or female, are equally a mystery to me.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.