Quotes About Equality

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; they owned land in their own right. They could divorce their husbands if they wanted to. All of those wonderful allowances that were made for women in the Viking culture weren't really part of the Christian culture at the time.

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.

I've got an idea; how about you don't blame all gun owners for the actions of a few?

I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.

What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.

Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!

The Rooney Rule is intended to give minorities an opportunity to sit down in front of ownership, but I think what it's turned into is an instance where guys are just checking the box. That's been the case. I've been on some interviews in the past where I've had that feeling.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

Women boxers prefer to focus on the win rather than the bravado. We've come a long way. In the '90s, you only ever saw women parading in heels and a bikini holding a scorecard. Now we're owning it; we should get some male models in Speedos to do the ring walk.

We women are great at underselling ourselves and not so great at owning our awesome.

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

I feel things are changing now. Actresses are working at same pace even after getting married or having kids.

Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack.

I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It's hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.

I think diverse stories are just stories. I don't think 'diverse' is an add-on package. Things that are not diverse are weird because that's not accurate.

I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth.

I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and they haven't made a single movie about a woman.

In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.