Quotes About Equality

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

When I see gay people holding hands or kissing in the streets, I just don't think that's right.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'

For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve our access to housing, education, employment and gender-confirming healthcare.

We all have responsibility to stop violence and discrimination against women, whether it's in our businesses, in our homes, or on our streets.

Racism is real; it exists here and now. You can find it on the streets, in your office, and in football stadiums.

My father would be very concerned about the environment. He'd be disappointed that we have hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of people who are living out on the streets in the wealthiest nation on the planet. He'd be greatly disappointed because he would know that we can, and we must, do better.

Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.

Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and the fight to have equality and things be better.

People say if you're being bullied don't go online. But we don't tell a women not to walk the streets.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.