Quotes About Equality

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

I would tell little Zavion Davenport that it doesn't matter where you're from and how you grew up, the neighborhood you grew up in.

I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood.

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote 'smart' kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.

More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his show.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.

A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours.

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.

God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be.

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

Before anyone else, women need to accept that neither does life stop, nor does it change for those few days in a month.