Quotes About Equality

she and they were all the same under the skin, weren't they?

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

La mort est le grand égalisateur

A small man still seems to me to be a man, he wrote, whereas a small woman appears to me to belong to a new type of animal.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the one from 1793:

certaines féministes souhaitaient aller plus loin, permettre le prononcé de peines plus lourdes en introduisant la notion de « féminicide » dans le Code pénal, ce que je trouvais plutôt amusant, ça faisait penser à insecticide, ou à raticide.

Evet, kad?nlar?n da erkekler gibi çirkin olabilme hakk?na kavuÅŸmalar? için mücadele etmeleri gerekiyor. Otuz ya??n üstündeki bir han?ma yaÅŸ sorulmaz diye geçiÅŸtirilen ve sanki yüz k?zart?c? bir hastal?k söz konusuymuÅŸ gibi bu konuda en ufak an??t?rmadan bile kaç?n?lan bu iÄŸrenç uzlaÅŸmay? b?rakmak gerek art?k.

Perché per rispettare gli altri e trattarli in modo giusto, non dobbiamo dimenticarci che abbiamo tutti bisogno di qualcuno. Che siamo tutti dipendenti. Senza eccezione. E che la dipendenza non è necessariamente negativa.

Yoshino distinguishes covering from "conversion" (trying to become straight) and "passing" (staying in the closet), and points out that even after gay people come out, society exerts a "covering demand" on its minority members. I would argue that, by pleading for more magnanimous treatment of our opponents, gay thought leaders were unconsciously applying the covering demand to the LGBT equality movement as a whole.

When it comes to LGBT civil rights, as with other marginalized groups, our fundamental personhood is not an issue that has two sides.

In one particularly witty, stinging passage, he wrote, "Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.

eight other states already have what are known as "no promo homo" laws, which, like the original "don't say gay" bill, restrict to varying degrees what educators can say about homosexuality.

I am standing on another soapbox making the case for tolerating people who oppose same-sex marriage.

We deserve a marketplace that rejects homophobic bigotry, and covering means accepting something less than that.

Yoshino says, "Gays should not rest now but move forward by looking back.

in schools where the majority of youth report having learned about LGBT people in the curriculum, only 11% of students report being bullied, which was half the number of students who reported being bullied in schools that do not teach this history.

let's make them work for us. Let's keep them busy in committees defending our full civil rights in return for our full support and let them use it as a wedge issue against the GOP. The last thing leading Republicans want to do, after all, is have an open conversation about LGBT equality.

In May 2014, a gay male couple paying their check after a nice dinner at Big Earl's Bait House in Pittsburgh, Texas, were ordered not to come back. "We don't serve fags here," the cashier, a daughter of the owner, told the men to their faces. "Here at Big Earl's we like for men to act like men and for ladies to act like ladies, so we want you to never return.

She went to the Better Business Bureau, which elicited a response from the spa's owner stating, "It is our policy to not accept any kinds of abnormal sexual oriented customers to our facility such as homosexuals, or transgender.

The realities of the lives of many LGBT people, from grappling with HIV to the presence of anti-LGBT violence, are unconsciously covered up as the victory narrative consumes us and as we allow it to happen at our own peril.

I'll look at why LGBT groups in Washington have asked for so little for so many years—and gotten nothing—and why and how we must change that and demand full equality.

it wasn't until recently that we saw marriage as a winning issue rather than a losing one.

another important aspect of the marriage-equality movement that gives us some guidance moving forward is that it was driven not by the Beltway but by average Americans who wanted equality and who worked with visionary legal advocates.