Quotes About Equality

There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

The notion that a black suspect can do no wrong and is always the victim is B.S.

I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one.

It's rare that this woman gets to be in a superhero movie and not be the victim.

From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.

Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work or people have shown disinterest in working with me because I was unwilling to succumb to this unspoken understanding of patriarchy.

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew up in segregation. I know very well what it was about and all of the difficulties it placed on black life, and how we were truly held down before the civil-rights movement.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of our victimization, of our suffering and exclusion from the mainstream of American life, has left its mark.

Especially for blacks, but also for many Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian-Americans, group identity is now shaped more by a liberal politics in which past victimization is deferred to, and for which redress is sought with preferential treatment, than by a unified culture.

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.

Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.

If actual victims of discrimination had to wait on the NAACP to see them to justice, they would never get help.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

When you ask people to name victims of police brutality, for the most part, nobody will give you a woman's name.

Our laws must protect victims.

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

It's clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard - including our civil rights laws, our criminal laws and our civil justice laws - too often have the opposite effect. These laws are clearly rooted in a false assumption that those in power can do no wrong.