Quotes About Equality

I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?

You don't want to endorse hate; you don't want to endorse racism. You don't want to support controversy.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

We've come quite far with the idea of equality between sexes, but there's still a lot of conversations that need to be had about men in power.

I encourage people to have those tough conversations just to educate yourself on what goes on and how we can create equality in the world and grow together as one.

These sorts of conversations should be second nature, it shouldn't be hard to talk about race.

I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How can you hate me when you don't even know me.'

There's something wrong in a nation where six million black men are not allowed to vote because they were convicted of felonies. They've paid their dues to society, but yet their right to vote is not reinstated.

One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not out of this sense of duty and that you'd be condemned to hell forever if you didn't, but because it will make all your lives better.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

It's okay, it's cool to be Indian and there are cool people that are Indian and doing really well. It's okay to be brown and cool.

Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.

Dev Anand was extremely cooperative towards a newcomer. He never made me feel that he was a big star and I, a newcomer.

Every cop isn't a bad cop just like every NFL player that makes a mistake, we're not all bad guys.

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

Not every cop is bad, not every white person is bad or racist.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

Why aren't there enough black cops out there? We need black cops to come in and educate some of the white cops who have issues.

The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.