Quotes About Equality

None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

There were three football fields next door to my house. I used to walk down to the boys' team, but eventually, I was told I was going to have to stop playing because I was a girl.

Eventually, people have to realize I'm not different than the person next door, except that more people know my name.

By saying that leaders - male or female - have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we are not only hurting those individuals but also reinforcing rigid benchmarks for the next generation of passionate, aspiring leaders, who are watching.

My parents didn't have the opportunities they would have liked, but they didn't complain about that because they thought they were part of a society where the next generation would have those opportunities.

That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'

I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.

Just like there are nice guys and not-so-nice guys, there are nice women and the not-so-nice. The problem is that, in India films have only shown one side of women.

Just because you're a woman in gaming doesn't mean you're a nice person all the time necessarily.

We are nicer to Muslims than any other country.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I'm one of the nicest, most fair people I know.

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

Some Nickelodeon executives were worried about backing an animated action show with a female lead character. Conventional TV wisdom has it that girls will watch shows about boys, but boys won't watch shows about girls. During test screenings, though, boys said they didn't care that Korra was a girl. They just said she was awesome.

I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal.

At Shondaland, six out of nine writers were of color - not Latinx, but I was like, 'Wait, I can do that but for the whole room?' 'Atlanta' had done that, then I can do that.