Quotes About Equality

A show like 'Orange Is the New Black' has every race and ethnicity - and you don't even have to depend on four networks any more. You can go to Amazon or Netflix and be in an award-winning show.

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.

I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

People are frustrated all over the country, whether they're in Oklahoma or Oregon or San Diego or San Francisco or L.A. or D.C. or New York or Omaha or wherever.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

Eventbrite is 50-50 male-female, and this has been accomplished organically.

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.