Quotes About Equality

Seriously I just don't get why straight people are so afraid of the fact that gay people can get married.

I feel sorry for straight people.

I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

You kinda say, 'Well, straight people don't have to come out.' I understand now that's not necessarily the right way to look at it.

The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.

I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.

I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.

The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.

I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of your background or religion.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by strangers for simply existing.

The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.