Quotes About Equality

I stand up for all rights.

I've been a homosexual all my life. My partner and I don't want to stand up and say we're gay, because we think that's wrong.

As a woman, when you look up to a man, you want to feel protected. We do need a lot more respect and men who will stand up when they need to. That needs to be the new normal.

When are we going to see the rest of the world stand up for Muslims?

I will always stand up to protect fair access to the ballot box.

I'm white. I have privileges as a parent that many others don't. Of not only teaching but expecting my daughter to stand up for herself because I have no fear that harm will come to her when she does. I am reassured by her teachers that her willfulness will do her good as she gets older.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

It's mad that in pretty much any other industry equality is expected as a standard, but in the acting industry, because there are such fewer parts, we seem to accept 'I'm a girl so it's harder for me'.

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

There are women who can play at my standard, if not better, and they can beat men, too, so it would be nice to see them do it as well.

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

I think the word 'diverse' is a cancerous word because it's life. It's a PC way of saying 'non-white,' and it ultimately suggests that white is the standard.

'Bridgerton' is actually delivering on changing the bar, and the standard, of representation.

How can you expect something out of a young player on the ice when you treat him differently off the ice? I believe in certain acts or behaviors, and it's a standard for me that we're not going to be using anything against anyone.

For me, I think there is no absolute standard on masculinity.

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

If the airline industry were to evolve a common fitness standard for both male and female employees, that would not just be acceptable, it would be entirely desirable.

Beauty has no set standard. It is honestly in diversity.

We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.