Quotes About Equality

If we want a cohesive society, if we want people that are prepared to respect others who are different in our society, I think a number of the race-related issues have been handled in ways which I really abhor.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

I'm not looking for a boyfriend - but if I was, he'd have to be prepared to carry me around everywhere.

I don't think I have advice for female directors as opposed to male directors. I think all first-time directors should try and be as prepared as they possibly can, because it's hard!

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

No child should be expelled from preschool. And so we are calling on school districts around the country to end that practice. That benefits every child.

How long do we have to keep fighting for affordable prescription drugs?

I don't want folks with pre-existing medical conditions - like asthma and diabetes - to be denied health care. I sure don't want to see our grandparents paying more for prescription drugs and women paying more just because of their gender.

I will not rest until seniors get the cost-of-living adjustments they have earned and we lower the cost of prescription drugs.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

Single women will get us closer to gender equality, and that will take many forms, including a reimagining of what families entail and what it means to have a full female life. Also, their presence will force the government to support a population of independent women more capably.

What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.

When I first came to comics, it was, like, dudes. The feeling, the air, the presence is overwhelmingly male.

We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We used our social media presence online in order to forward a conversation about what is taking place in black communities.

There will always be a certain segment of the population who turns on an NBA game or turns on a college game and hears my voice and objects to my presence. I've conceded that. I can't please everybody. I don't even try.'

There's an ongoing discussion around equality, and age is one thing that has a very different presence around women than it does around men.

Racism has never been outright gone in the history of this nation, but I think we've had moments where everybody has been really fed up with its presence.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.

I believe that everyone who is human is androgynous, but I don't think there are a lot of people that are presented as truly androgynous.

Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are.

Presenting myself and my gender is about my right to exist.

In reality, girls make mistakes, and it's not fair to keep presenting this narrative that they're perfect.