Quotes About Equality

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

I have friends on the homosexuality side. It's not something that offends me at all.

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.

People have the right to live as equal citizens under the law. They do not have the right to demand that their identities be coddled and celebrated lest they might otherwise get offended.

I'm not super-easily offended, but it's a problem when someone's making you feel different or separate because of your race.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

I think we do have to be conscious that sometimes there are different issues with women offenders than there are with men.

When I first began competing, brands were quite hesitant to feature disabled athletes in advertisements, perhaps due to a fear of offending consumers.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix.

I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

We are in a diversity age. I talk about the lack of diversity for black Americans, but what about the Asian Americans? You don't see them very often. They have a show called 'Fresh off the Boat.' No one is talking about that show. I saw it, and I found that show completely offensive, but I'm not Asian American.

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that's our job as head coaches - to find those guys.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major blockbuster films.

Personally, as an artiste, I never do any discrimination. If I am offered a 'Golmaal 4,' I'll run and do it.

What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.

A lot of people who are in charge in Hollywood are women, so they have the power. Now, I've met a lot of these amazing women who are offering opportunities to other women, and they're awesome. But for the women who maybe haven't done that yet, it's like, why?

In the 23 years that I have been here in this industry, I have not once been in a position where somebody has propositioned me or I found myself in a place where they're offering me good work in return for some favors.