Quotes About Equality

Oh yes," agreed Tom. "But he saw you arrive. He saw you walk into the hotel with a knapsack on your back so he didn't know you were an important person until I told him. If you had arrived in a big automobile with a great deal of luggage he would have been nice to you from the beginning." This was not what Will meant, but he had to leave it.

God likes boys better than girls, doesn't He?" asked Anne suddenly. "No," replied Mr. Orme. The question startled him — in fact it horrified him — but he answered it quite quietly. "No," he repeated. "Certainly not." "I thought He did," said Anne. "Boys are more important, aren't they?" "No, we are all of equal importance in the sight of God. He loves us all.

If any class or race can be permanently set apart from, or pushed down below the rest in political or civil rights, so may any other class or race when it shall incur the displeasure of its more powerful associates, and we may say farewell to the principles on which we count our safety.

I've had friends of mine say, like, they're tired of 'gayface,' and I was like, 'What's gayface?' They were like, 'It's the gay version of blackface: like, come in and be more effeminate.'

The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

I think this is the most exciting time to be alive right now. We have a black president. There are transgender movies and media out there now. Gay characters are playing non-stereotypical versions of themselves. I feel like as a society, or in television at least, we're rising up. Even in society we're rising up.

'Love, Simon' is incredibly dope, but that's one specific experience, and I would love to see more versions of that story being told or other stories that we haven't even seen yet from the LGBTQIA community.

The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from the art level: beautiful versus ugly.

I mean we just simply can't stand for the systemic racism, social injustice and police brutality against the black community anymore. And it's really about standing up for what's right versus what's wrong.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

It's interesting in seeing when I'm talking to men in particular and telling them I'm an actress versus a director and the different turn the conversation will take when I say I'm a director. The level of respect is very interesting.

I think there's a lot to be said for changing the balance of what we tax: wealth versus work.

There's no such thing as racism, sexism, 'homophobi-ism,' 'Islamophobi-ism' - it's good versus evil, right versus wrong.

You know, sexism in the punk scene - or just in rock and roll in general - is so easily demonstrated by the amount of women or queer people that you see on stage versus the amount of cis males that you see on stage.