Quotes About Equality

Sexual orientation, color, background - that's what I want people to take away: Anyone can be anything.

We need to ensure that no one is denied employment, housing, opportunities, or benefits because of their sexual orientation.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.

One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or physical attributes.

I wouldn't want anyone to tell me that I couldn't marry the person I loved, and I don't want to do that to anyone else regardless of sexual orientation.

Whatever you sexual orientation is, it doesn't affect how you work or who you are or what you do.

I respect footballers of any skin colour and any sexual orientation.

Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.

I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make.

No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.

I believe that individuals in our country should not face discrimination for their sex or their gender or their sexual orientation.

The federal government has no business in restricting basic human rights based on sexual orientation, and I am ready to protect equality at every turn in Congress.

I will do everything in my power to ensure our country is a place where everyone, whatever their gender identity or sexual orientation, can be themselves and live their lives with dignity and respect.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin.

Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.

My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.