Promoting Equality Quotes

You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice”.

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

With a lot of these social stigmas, they just don't need to be in place. Just by talking about them, we can often shatter them.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.

I'm trying to break a lot of prejudices with my every film.

We celebrate our diversity, we lift people up, and we make America even greater.

I felt like it was a sense of duty for me to give these women a voice.

As minister for business and minister for women and equalities, it is clear to me that promoting equality of opportunity simply makes good business sense.