Quotes About Equality

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.

There's nothing more political than fantasy.

Just because I'm the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I'm the highest paid. I've had to fight for everything that I have. It's such a fickle and political industry.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.

Our political class obsesses over social mobility from one generation to the next - whether or not people are doing better than their parents did - but we rarely talk about those who are already in work and want to progress.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.

In an age of political correctness, even the most apparent gender assertions are dismissed as ignorance.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

Black History Month is an annual opportunity to recognize the central role of African Americans in our state's economic, cultural, social and political history.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.

Women's rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women's rights - political parties talk about it, even religious parties talk about it.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

Political party doesn't matter to me.

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.