Quotes About Equality

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

Aided by the Great Society and the New Deal, the middle class grew, everywhere from Winnetka to Orlando to Humboldt.

When I was at The Orlando Sentinel as a sports columnist, it was embarrassing that I was the only black female sports columnist at a daily newspaper in North America.

This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority-African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

There is a misconception in our society that only women have to follow the norms of wearing a mangalsutra after marriage. Actually there are a few ornaments which even men are expected to wear after marriage.

If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person.

I'd love to see a woman host the Oscars.

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.

One of the flaws in the American dream is that there isn't as much of a safety net as you may get in other countries.

We should treat other countries the way we want to be treated.

We are in the year 2013, and racism is still amongst us and is still a problem. It's not simply an argument for the History Channel or something that belongs to the past or something that only happens in other countries.

Here in Brazil, homophobia is everywhere. If Brazil looked up to good things that other countries do, it would become a better place. I'm not talking about homosexuals only, but for everything else.

Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

I don't think anybody in America ought to be scared.

I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.