Quotes About Equality

We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country.

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life - by definition - position, and I didn't understand why we did it.

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

If anything as simple as child care was covered by the league or your organization, that would be life-changing for moms, especially when we're scraping pennies. Maybe we would have more moms in this league if something like that was there for us, but I feel like we're far from that.

The people of Pennsylvania don't owe me a mansion with a chef and a gardener.

It didn't matter whether I had a penny or whether I had a billion dollars. There was nothing that was going to keep me out of a courtroom, and there was nothing that was going to keep me from helping others.

When you've lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you've raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don't belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.

Funding care in the same way we fund pensions is the right approach for the Government to take, and the fairest way to guarantee dignity for all in old age.

I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Gay people are made and not born.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

At the end of the day, Black Lives Matter and we all know this and I get when people say all lives matter, I understand.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'