Quotes About Equality

Everybody kept saying I wasn't going to get any fights. And they wouldn't put me on TV and they don't respect women's boxing. But I also turned professional with two Olympic gold medals and that's something that no other American boxer has ever done. With that, I've been getting a lot of respect.

I'm happy to see that more girls are going into weightlifting and aiming to become Olympic medalists as well.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

Most people should be given a chance to compete in the Olympic Games.

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

It's fun to work with men. They don't bully you. On the contrary, they guide you and become one of your buddies.

I'm enjoying being a woman on-screen.

Women should not only be doing action on-screen but should be a part of every other aspect of filmmaking.

Every time we have a woman on-screen, we can empower her in a different way rather than just giving a speech on the importance of equality and empowerment. I think sometimes we have to show her as powerful.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

We were all one, all the languages and all the people and all the states. We are one country and we have the freedom to talk in any language.

My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.

The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law.

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.