Quotes About Equality

If all the people of this country, black and white alike, are to enter fully into our national story, as I desperately hope they will, they must do so on terms of reciprocity.

Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

Legal arguments, particularly when they reach the highest court in the land, can be detached from daily life.

If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

The color of my skin should not determine whether I live or die.

But at the end of the day, the lottery of birth shouldn't determine your value to the world.

Why does the worth of an actress have to be determined by her co-stars?

It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

It's detrimental not to support marriage equality, even just on a financial level.

Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.

When I was 12, I was told I couldn't play with the boys anymore, and I was devastated.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

The image of women's football has definitely changed. Now we've got to make sure it keeps developing.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.