Quotes About Equality

Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress.

Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't carry a firearm as a woman in the Met until 1988, there were no women dog handlers, and there was probably one woman in CID.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

We have not let injustice to be done to anyone. We have been following the policy of 'justice to all, appeasement of none.'

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.

I don't feel I ask anything of anybody else that I wouldn't give up myself. I don't think the things I ask are particularly shocking, and I don't think I approach celebrities from the point of view of being a polished journalist.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.