Quotes About Equality

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.