Quotes About Equality

It is hard knowing that maybe if I was born a man and doing the exact same thing I would have more money than sense.

I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren't exactly the same as us.

I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

Love each other, no exceptions.

You know how few movies there are in the world about women and their work? I mean, it's like 'Silkwood' and 'Erin Brokovich.' There are exceptions, but they are so exceptional.

I never consider whether an actor is small or big. Working with small or big actors doesn't excite me.

There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't do that. Yet I try not to exclude anyone.

It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society.

If it's for everyone, it's not exclusive.

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a room and it's all white, those kids have to work to stand out, not you.'

The lamest excuse that I get incessantly is, 'Oh, we're not going ethnic with that role,' so I can't go in for it, or I can't get the part, which is really stupid, because, in today's world, people look different.

My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

Nobody wants the armed forces to be somehow above the law, or exempt from it.

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

I like all languages equally.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.