Quotes About Equality

Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentionally or otherwise - are an affront to the African American journalism community and to the African American community as a whole.

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

President Obama has been on the world stage for 10 years, and people know what he believes. He doesn't single out individual countries and doesn't say, 'I believe in LGBT rights because I want to embarrass the political leadership in India.'

When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.

In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

Police officers' disproportionate use of force against people of color is a stain on our nation.

I grew up in a feminist household in Hackney, East London, my mum was responsible in many ways for the feminist stain on the socialist party, and my dad had really strong feminist leanings.

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

I think there's a backlash against minorities in this country and that part of what caused that was the fact that a black man became president. And a certain portion of the privileged population think their privilege is at stake, and they want it back.

I want to be crystal clear that everyone has an equal stake in our society and in the future of our country. That is what I believe, and it is what I have always believed.

We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

No one should walk into a party and have a stamp that says 'mayor' or 'businessman' on their head. Everyone is just there to have a good time.

I'm always going to say, 'I think there is racism' and I want to stamp it out.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.