Quotes About Equality

While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country.

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.

Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.

It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.

It's very important to be curious in a very universal way. Whether someone is poor or rich, I'm curious about everything.

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.

It doesn't matter where you come from. Running is a universal sport and universal language.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development and governance of a place.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Hong Kongers deserve universal suffrage.

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

To draft a bill of rights that simply replicates the European convention on human rights gives the game away; namely that the Human Rights Act does, in fact, offer appropriate protection to all of our citizens according to universally accepted standards.

You look at the Americans. They don't lack fervour in moral causes. They promote democracy, freedom of speech, women's rights, gay rights, sometimes even transgender rights. But you don't see them applying that universally across the world with all their allies.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

It was a dream come true to work alongside an all-Asian cast, telling a beautiful and powerful story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

I resonate with everything that the Miss Universe organisation stands for, especially empowering women across the globe.