Quotes About Equality

I consider myself a product of Berry Gordy, but not a clone... He and I are always friends and colleagues, and I will always revere him as a mentor and boss. Though, of course, I'm always struggling for more equal footing.

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.

We have to be bold and serve all San Franciscans who are struggling to afford housing.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall.

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, 'black lives matter,' or 'blue lives matter,' all lives matter. It's not right what is going on in this world on both sides.

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status.

I don't think we should be stuck to only loving people based on what they look like.

Every student has something to offer, and every student deserves a nurturing learning environment.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

The students' union and the student body work hard to support the university in encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to Oxford.

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.