Quotes about Equality

Women's sport is embedded in the mainstream consciousness now, and that is a hugely positive thing. That's not to say that our sport can't get even more popular - because I think it can - but perceptions have definitely changed for the better.

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.

Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.

Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need that whole conversation.