Quotes About Equality

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There is massive pregnancy discrimination, in parliament and right across society.

No woman should ever have to choose between maintaining a healthy pregnancy and a paycheck.

A diva should be able to get some time off for pregnancy without fearing her career will be on the line.

The best way to handle women is to keep them pregnant and barefoot.

Some women work while they are pregnant, but not me. That was a choice I had made. That's when I took a break. Men can work at whatever stage they are; whether they turn daddy, they still have their own thing. But women can't afford that because by being mothers, they have to be there for their kids.

You know what male comics can't do? They can't get pregnant. They can't perform pregnant. So my attitude is, just use all those differences.

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

Sports help women stay in school longer and make them less likely to use drugs, break the law, or get pregnant at an early age.

I want to use my voice to better health care for pregnant women.

We want to make legislation; we want to put laws on women's uteruses and whether or not they can protect themselves from pregnancy or whatever, but we don't want to protect you once you're pregnant.

The GOP will not be satisfied until women are barefoot, pregnant and back home by 5 o'clock P.M. to cook dinner.

I don't think many women would disagree that it's a good thing that under E.U. law a British woman who becomes pregnant while working in Europe can't be discriminated against.

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will ensure that no pregnant woman is unfairly fired, or forced to risk the health of themselves or their pregnancy, to earn a paycheck. Our mothers deserve these federal protections.

I don't condone racism. I don't condone prejudice.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The air is the only place free from prejudice.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

Being a parent to my daughters, son to my parents, and friends to many people, I would wish for a society that's fair to everyone, that's free of prejudice and as non-divisive as possible.

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

I think that there's still a lot of prejudice going on. I don't really think it's only an issue of football. I think football is a mirror of society.