Quotes About Equality

I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.

The police or any higher authority should never try and criminalise people for their sexuality. It is something that is to great extent given by God.

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

There is no police brutality.

The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.

I just - I come from a very little town where the militarization of the police force is a very real issue.

Accountability for police officers should be an expectation, not an aberration.

I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

We have police officers who may devalue the life of Black people. And that's what we have to change.

As a flight instructor 30 years ago, I had quite a few female police officers who wanted to be pilots. But the guys would say 'no.' They wanted those jobs to themselves.

The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and doing it the right way.

For police officers who commit this violence, there has been no accountability. Cops are supposed to be held to a standard of conduct, but they always get the benefit of the doubt, inherently. They act like we ain't supposed to question nothing.

You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies mean for others.

The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned from the ballot box that could help them dismantle policies that essentially extend their sentences.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

My policies are multi-ethnic and certainly not racist.

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.

With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

Family-supportive policies, which enable women to remain and progress in paid employment and encourage men to take their fair share of care work, are crucial to achieving gender equality at work.