Quotes About Equality

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

I hate the idea that people should listen to what actors have to say on certain issues more than anyone else. Actors have no more right to be heard than anyone.

I do a fantastic job for a living: I get to play in front of 90,000, and obviously, everyone knows your name and what have you. But I'm no better than anyone else.

I don't think I'm better than anyone else.

I'm no different than anyone else.

Nobody is different from anyone else, no matter what the situation. We're all equal.

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

People think making jokes about something is just going to cause trouble. But actually, not making jokes about something is a type - and this sounds very pretentious - of apartheid.

I am done apologizing for being ambitious and I stand for all those women who don't want to apologize just because they are working.

There's never really been a true apology for slavery.

We want laws to be applied predictably.

Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.

I knew that I wanted to apply for a job in the Air Force, that I couldn't because it was a direct-combat, ground-combat role.

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for a long time my people weren't 'allowed' to. So I'm going to write my books, my apps and tell my stories.

I'm trying to be a voice for the North African Arab community. We've got to continue to fight for our place in the industry.

Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him on radio you would think he was white.

A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years old and realized what was going on when I heard my mother arguing with people about the issue.

When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight... Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

We used to watch my father, who was a civil-rights activist, get arrested on TV sometimes, and we never knew if he was going to be home for dinner.