Quotes About Equality

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.

I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Doing politics over water is not good as people from Punjab and Haryana are also our own like that of Delhi. Everyone should get water.

Young people can sometimes use language either thoughtlessly or deliberately, particularly around the use of the word 'gay.'

It's hard enough to celebrate being Asian in normal times. But now, when the whole world is kind of coming down, with all this rhetoric and people getting attacked on the street, you really need to deliberately try to celebrate Asian-ness.

Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse.

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

I've always said that: 'We as black people, if you want respect, you have to give each other respect.' You can't demand respect from white people and the cops if we don't respect each other.

There is more of a demand, especially on the Internet and on Tumblr and Twitter, from women who are like, 'We want to see more of us on TV!'.

I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None.

I'm not a machine. I don't see why people demand more of me than of other players.

It's hard to say, 'I demand a seat at a table for best picture.'

I don't mind demanding women.

By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America.

Audiences need to keep demanding shows with strong female leads.

Building back better demands that we build back better for everyone - and that we leave no one and no community behind.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

We want democracy and peace.