Quotes About Equality

I want to construct a better country for each Brazilian: pacified, just, without hate or rancor.

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

I always felt that, through it all, there was a really strong, forward, positive, constructive accomplishment by the American people during that period, if you consider that during the period from 1954 to 1965, this country broke through the caste system.

All I can say is that, as an industry, we are trying to come together and find a way of constructively making a system where we all have a safe environment, and it's going on. I am part of that, and I hope that we come up with a constructive system which is equal and genderless for every human being.

I think of myself as just another consumer.

We are fighting for an open and fair economy. We are fighting for the consumer. Someone needs to.

As a consumer, I love nothing more than to find and support women-owned brands - and especially women of color-owned brands.

Requiring forced arbitration agreements limits consumer rights and protections.

Exclusives are bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry.

If you are a woman and an actor, it does not mean that you have to contain or limit yourself to just being that.

Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

I feel it is important to respect contestants on national TV, celebrity or not.

People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

You always find women contribute to a relationship more than a man.

When women are empowered to contribute more fully, we all benefit.

I feel that this nation should open its doors to any person that would like to contribute to this society.

I think there is a role for us as women to contribute to the future of technology.

Women with opportunities are women who can contribute.

I think we have some amazing leaders. But then we have some leaders who turn a blind eye to things that contribute negatively to a really difficult culture for women.

Women are better than man at valuing relationships and much better than men in terms of contributing towards a relationship.