Quotes About Equality

Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give up and lose hope and change our system.

The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn't want to be.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

As a child, my father taught me to never take my freedoms for granted. He challenged me to fight for what is right.

If we really want to be the Live Free or Die State, we must ensure that New Hampshire is a place where every person, regardless of their background, has an equal and full opportunity to pursue their dreams and to make a better life for themselves and their families.

In New Mexico, we're very lucky that we have laws in place that really help ensure that Native Americans' right to vote is unencumbered.

It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.

I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

When you go back to 'Friends,' and you look at that as New York, there's no black people. That's not real. You're in New York City, and there's no black people at all. That's a little funny.

New York City has an integration problem.

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years.

Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. That's why the New York City Police Department has moved away from it.

And what do we love about New York City? We love that everyone's here. We are one of the most diverse cities in the world. And that diversity is racial. It's ethnic, it's linguistic, it's class.

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

I was shocked when I would read a newspaper from that time, and the Freedom March wasn't even mentioned.

I can't wait for the day when it is no longer newsworthy that a woman is appointed editor of a newspaper.