Equality Quotes

Religious freedom is a proud founding principle of America and ethnic bigotry flies in the face of American principles of liberty and equality.

The United States is a country founded on the ideal of freedom and equality, values later underlined by key historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

During that 2011 offseason, as the debate around 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and DOMA was heating up on social media, I had to pull out every last ounce of self-control to keep myself from retweeting something in support of marriage equality.

As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.

I'm not just equality minister I am also a Treasury secretary.

Equity' is only two letters away from 'equality,' after all, and who would object to that? But in those two letters is a world of difference. 'Equity' is intrinsically unjust because it demands equality of outcome and not equality of opportunity.

We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we can't accomplish equality, we can't serve justice, off of lies.

One of the privileges of my adult life has been meeting pioneers of LGBT equality, particularly Waheed Alli, Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen.

Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential - for themselves and for their country.

For all the challenges facing governments and their economies around the world equality for disabled people is not just a big part of the answer; it is the entire margin of victory.

It drives me batty that there isn't more equality in my business.

I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and we have to ensure anti-discrimination laws don't violate First Amendment rights or religious freedom.

As a child of the Bronx who grew up in the projects, I was often too scared to come out of the closet, too blinded to see clearly my own value, my own equality.

Like Native Americans and African-Americans, women and LGBTQ people, Puerto Ricans should be seen as part of the same overarching struggle for equality - in a nation whose greatest vice is the perennial failure to practice the virtue it preaches.

Equality has long been the end goal of historically oppressed populations in the United States.

It's only when there's equality that's when we'll see men really flourish.

I do not know all the history behind our courageous L.G.B.T.Q. community, but I am eager to learn and to help continue the fight for equality and acceptance.

You know what, there are multiple streams of diversity: LGBTQI, gender equality, your race. All these streams of diversity had prejudices in the past, but a lot of them are getting a lot better. But the one you never hear about is disability.