Quotes About Equality

People want women to be so submissive when we got a voice of our own, and we can do everything these dudes can do.

Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you.

When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.

I believe that it's easier for the woman to submit. That's biblical... God has equipped men to take on much more responsibility.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests.

I think Americans did learn that you just are not going to be able to live well if you subordinate people on the grounds of their religion.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

I don't subscribe to the idea of a first and second heroine. I go by if a role is strong.

I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.

Really, I think the extra layer of raising a son as a gay black man comes from trying to raise a son who doesn't subscribe to masculine stereotypes.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.

There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

The industry confines us in boxes, but we have to prove that we are women of substance.

Inclusiveness has an outlook, an appearance and substance.

You know, women are treated like objects. But they have substance. They are not just an item number to be looked at - they have more to them than that.