Quotes About Equality

I've been woken up by things like the MeToo movement. I didn't realize how much of the patriarchy was ingrained within my spirit.

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

We show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of office, there will still be all those things here.

You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.

It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to patriarchy. But feminism is about being equal. The word used should be 'equalist,' as it is about all humans being equal and respecting each other for that.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

I think patriotism is never racism.

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Well, I don't believe in patronage.

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

Maybe I could manage someone and be the female Paul Heyman.

We're a big family. We all want to see each other win. But I don't introduce myself as LeBron James' friend. I'm Rich Paul. You have to respect me first.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

I definitely think we paved the way for other girl groups. We did it very much on our own terms without kowtowing to all the men in the business or being told what to do by anyone. For that we feel very proud.

I stand alongside everyone campaigning for better pay and conditions - they are paving the way for a fairer society.

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

When I started to work in the kitchen, there's not a lot of women that were working and I didn't try to pay attention to that.

It's absolutely true we have to pay attention to whether low-income people of any race are able to access quality, higher education.