Quotes About Equality

How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.

Directing is not about gender. Directing is individual to the actual individual. From woman to woman, directing is completely different. It's about giving more than half the population a chance to express themselves, you know what I mean? It doesn't always mean it's going to be more sensitive.

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

Women are not diversity. We're half the population.

Eliminating global poverty will need the talent and potential of all, not just half the population.

Stop ignoring disabled people, we make up 22 per cent of the population. We're here and we're worth listening to.

Ultimately, my goal is to inspire little brown girls that look like me, that are sitting on the porch wearing cornrows.

It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television.

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

Movies and TV are America's No. 1 export. So if our No. 1 export is all male, all white, then there's only one point of view. And I just think it's really important that as Americans - I'm a new American, but I am an American - that we don't portray ourselves to the world so one-sided and exclusive.

As someone who is non-binary gender identifying, I feel a particular responsibility to portray members of my community on stage and on screen, not only as fully fleshed-out characters who are integral to the plot, but as characters whose gender identity is just one of many parts that make up the whole person.

Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.

If you support diversity and think shows should give a portrayal of what America truly looks like, then performers with disabilities must be included in that equation...People have been very good at being politically correct.

In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.

The stories are being written by men, and it's men who are directing it. As long as that continues, you won't be seeing much change in the way women are portrayed in cinema.

There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.