Quotes About Equality

The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.

There were a number of reasons I decided to join the New York City Police Department back in 1984. I felt a calling to protect and serve my neighbors, and I wanted to reform negative departmental practices from within. On top of those factors, becoming a police officer gave me a pathway to the middle class.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

I think the word 'twink' is pejorative. There's something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.

I don't see why people can't praise when they see something done well - even if it is by a woman.

If we want equality, we shouldn't then expect to be praised just because we're doing a certain job. That's not equality.

Gay folks go to church. We pray to the Lord too.

I pray that in the future, no one knows the meaning of women empowerment because we don't need these words.

There are a lot of well meaning white liberals. And a lot of well meaning black liberals. But you know what? When all they do is sit around and preach to the choir it does absolutely no good. If you're not a racist it doesn't do any good for me to meet with you and sit around and talk about how bad racism is.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

And every human being is precious.

Baby fashion has become such a big thing. It used to be that everything had to be pink or blue or cute - you know, very precious - but not cool. But now, my friends who are mothers really want to dress their kids just like themselves.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

In bonded labour cases, judges would ask me why I had brought those people to the courts who stank. 'You are here precisely for them,' I would respond.

Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community.

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

Every so often, progress on race and religion occur precisely because an issue surfaces.

I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real.

For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.

If I had a son, I want him to be able to grow up in a world where he would not be called a sexual predator for trying to kiss someone.

As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.