Quotes About Equality

Hormone blockers changed and saved my life.

You see all these movies of white men saving the world all the time.

CoverGirl putting my face on such an international scale did make a huge leap forward for men in makeup and for boys in beauty and for anybody wanting to express themselves.

When people ask me, 'Should I earn the same money as the men?' No, I don't believe I should because they're on a bigger scale than me, they have more fans, are more popular.

American hate is not new - and it is not scarce.

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

Girls need to see somebody that looks like them talking about science and technology.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

When we think of scientists, we hear a man's voice.

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

There's not many people that look like me in Scotland.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.

I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

Everybody wants a seat at the table, but nobody wants to give up space.

As only the second Jewish person to lead a federal party with seats, I will say that antisemitism has no place in politics.