Quotes About Equality

Over the years, Americans have worked hard to expand the values our nation was founded on - justice, freedom, equality - to every person, regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status.

No kind of clothes can decide either your marital status or whether you qualify as good wife/homemaker or not.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

We can't afford to just nibble around the edges of the status quo. We need to take the actions to secure our neighborhoods, to make sure that everyone has opportunity.

Its hard, its almost natural, not to hate, but to think, 'I'm better than you, so I can't work with you' that's the status quo of how females act. I don't want it to be like that; that's why I like working with other females.

A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted - even upended - when the Constitution or laws may require, where the comfortable can be afflicted and the afflicted find some comfort, all under the shelter of the law.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.

I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo a little bit more.

Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

Though few hiring managers would deliberately choose to offer women less money than their male counterparts, when using salary history to determine compensation, they unintentionally preserve the status quo. Too often, women will have a lower salary history, and, therefore get a lower offer.

Some are motivated by a desire to mould the law to expand the rights of the downtrodden, while other may be motivated by a desire to maintain the Status Quo. Some may even be motivated by a desire to protect what they perceive to be their class interest. And such motives may not always even be conscious to the judges.

My mum raised me in a home without mirrors. She's a staunch feminist and wanted us to know that what we look like is the least interesting thing about us.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

Diversity can't be a fashionable thing: it should be here to stay.

Who wants to live in a world where you can only stay in the lane of your birth?

Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

Feminism is being able to have the choice - the choice to be a CEO, to be an executive, to be a journalist, to be a congresswoman, to be a mother, a stay-at-home mother, to be a wife.