Quotes About Equality

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.

We've shown people that you don't have to be taken for granted. You don't have to settle for less!

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.

Female actors' contribution to films are at par with male actors. So just because they signed the film, they can't be taken for granted.

We must never forget that Singapore is home for all races and this harmonious relationship must not be taken for granted.

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life.

When I was in fifth grade, there were many girls who were good at math, but when I was in junior high school, I was taking intermediate algebra and I looked around the class and realized I was the only girl.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.