Quotes about Equality
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
- Maya Angelou
White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
- Billy Graham
Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
- Jesse Owens
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
- Ian Mckellen
My pro program is going to reach out to more than just the people who have had the luxury of going to makeup school. Personally, when I was a kid, I couldn't afford that. That doesn't mean that they can't be at a professional level.
- Kat Von D
Trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, and we're not even being afforded the opportunity to tell our own stories. I feel that is problematic.
- Trace Lysette
We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
- Gabrielle Union
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
- Edith Stein
In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.
- Richard Foster