Quotes About Equality

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

I believe in civility, inclusion and diversity. I believe that everybody can contribute. I don't believe in labelling and stereotypes. These things are the antithesis of what I believe in and go against everything I love in America. And I do love America.

I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.

I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual.

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

I'm big on being anti-stereotypical and fighting negative stereotypes.

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.