Quotes About Equality

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

Today, investing is no longer just a good idea for women. It is a must-have.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

Be it Schumacher or a Shoe-maker, we are all racing toward the same finishline. Realizing the fragility of life can race you to greatness

Be thankful that you are on your feet, for there are people who can't even walk down the street. - RVM.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don't care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Music is a fundamental human right

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

I try not to discriminate against genres.