Quotes About Equality

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness - everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we're going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth - enjoy whatever time we're going to get!

I will continue to work to maintain Planned Parenthood's ability to provide excellent health care to millions of women.

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone.

I believe that my work extending health care to women through Planned Parenthood is something that most people will respect and do respect.

As we look ahead to our very diverse future, BAJI plans to continue to be at the forefront, uniting black communities to attain racial, social, and economic justice for all.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

I don't have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country.

Before Obamacare, only 12% of individual insurance plans covered maternity plans. Even without that important benefit, women were charged up to 48% more than men for the same benefit package.

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.

I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive stories that include people of color in the LGBT community.

My parents never planted the seed that anything was impossible. They planted the seed that things were doubly hard for a black man. My brothers and I made sure we outworked people and were better than everyone we were around.

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.

My father would get up with his plate after dinner and keep it where it was supposed to be kept. He wouldn't leave the plate for my mom to pick up.

I'm against exclusion of any kind - whether that's restricting people from Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. or kicking merchants off our platform if they're operating within the law.

I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.

The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.