Quotes About Equality

I have - and always will - stand up against efforts to limit a woman's right to choose.

I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

A brand is only going to want to be more inclusive if they feel like it's going to be good for business as well as making the consumer feel good - so we have to encourage people to do that. Consumers have to stand up and say, 'I have power: my pound or dollar is how I vote.'

When women apply for a job, we ask ourselves, 'Am I qualified? Do I have the experience? Do I have the education? Do I have the abilities?' When a man looks at that job, he thinks, 'How much does it pay?' We need to stop second-guessing our abilities. We need to stand up and make ourselves heard.

We need a president with experience and the wisdom and the grit to stand up to bullies who tell women that they should be punished for making their own decisions.

I'm so glad that we have had so many consequential rallies and parades which have now educated people and made them stand up for the third gender and give them the absolute place in our society that they deserve. There should have never been a division in the first place, though.

In the mother of parliaments, it is not too much to ask that our politicians stand up for all our best interests.

I've always had a 'stand up for the people' type of personality.

What we're looking for in a president, most importantly, is leadership. A person that will actually stand up and fight for the middle class.

I think that it's an easy thing to say, that whenever women do stand up, that 'Oh, they must hate men' - and I'm like, 'Well, if you listen carefully, it's actually a lovely tutorial that I wouldn't give to men unless I cared.'

It just doesn't make any sense for someone to say, 'Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?' There can't be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There's just no way around it.

We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact that this is only directed at the Muslim community is something that I personally can't accept.

I'm a real freedom fighter. I'm not a pretend freedom fighter. I stand up for other actresses, other people.

I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.

The folks in this counrty need somebody that will stand up for them.

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

If you're making $10 an hour and you're doing your job and you're doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn't stand up for themselves?

We must stand up to anti-Semitism at home and abroad.

I want to stand up for what I believe in, and I don't think it's right when people say things or bash people because of their sexual orientation.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.

We can't afford to compromise on anything we have fought for - abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.