Quotes About Equality

Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it.

Google that, 'old white men,' and you'll find that comes out of the mouths of liberals in a daily basis across the country. They're disparaging a group of people, and it's time somebody stood up for that group of people.

Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.

Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

Women haven't stood together enough because women have been pitted against one another.

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

I'm proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career.

We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The Chick!' We've always stood up to it and said, 'Fine, bring it on and we'll show you how we rock.'

Even after women got the vote in 1920, the idea that they stood for home and family helped to keep them from being seen as politically dangerous in the way that working men and male minorities were.

If you look at South Africa and President Nelson Mandela, it was people of the world who held their hands together and stood up to make a difference. So 'people power' is important.

There have been times I have stood in for women.

If I'm stood besides any man, I'm going to be accused of flirting.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.

Men and women wonder if merely walking or driving justifies being followed, stopped, or questioned. This practice and the presumption of guilt so often associated with people of color must come to an end.

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.

There's no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don't understand how people being happy can affect others so much - just let them be.

We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.

If I can, in any way, give people the courage to say, 'Actually, no, the nonsense stops right here,' then I want to be a part of doing that. Especially if that means that our folks will be more free.