Quotes About Equality

I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

Jews are underdogs - not in my world, obviously, they're not.

I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

I was always a champion of the minority, of the underdog.

I've always been passionate about the concept of helping the underdog. It just doesn't make sense to me as to what kind of person would take a huge platform and not use it to do something, to change something, to help people.

I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.

I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.

How do I have to continue to excessively prove myself and always be the underdog? I don't get the respect I deserve, and that leads me to believe that maybe it is a colour issue.

I've always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.

The further left you are, the more your concern for the underdog crowds out everything else, leading you to overlook inconsistencies. You might, for example, argue for immigration and multiculturalism in the UK, but not in the Amazon. You might demand equality before the law and, at the same time, gender quotas.

I just try to fight for the underdog, and try to fight for those who are locked out of the sunshine of opportunity.

This country always wants the underdog to win, that's in our nature.

I've always been the underdog, and I've always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look. But I feel like that's Black people as a whole, to be honest with you. We have to do so much more and work so much harder to get certain kinds of looks within this industry.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

Safe Schools lets young people who identify as gay know that they have every right to be accepted and respected for who they are. We should never underestimate how important this message is - or the consequences of trying to shout it down.

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don't work.

Do not underestimate me. I believe that as a woman, a progressive, and a Minnesotan, I have a lot to contribute and I am so ready to do that work.

There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them unfairly, when we condemn them unfairly.

After singing 'Same Love' across the nation, it's given me faith that I've underestimated the straight world.