Unequal Representation Quotes

Every planter South of the Potomac has three votes in effect for every five slaves he keeps in bondage; while a New England farmer who contributes ten-fold as much to the support of the Government has only a single vote.

I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.

In England, a Majority of Citizens does not elect the Majority of Representatives.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe--responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

You could have two world leaders that are business partners, It makes it almost impossible to conduct diplomacy in an even handed manner. That does not work.

How … can one person be given twice or ten times the voting power of another person ... merely because he lives in a rural area.

Poor men's words have little weight.

It's very hard as an Asian actress to get seen for anything which isn't specifically Asian in England.

When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men's bathrooms and only one women's bathroom.

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.

Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color.

I sometimes wonder, with the Oxbridge comics, the broadcasters seem to say, at some point, now I trust you to do a documentary, you can be the voice for a maths show, or whatever. I don't think we're ever considered in that way.

In the last 12 years we studied, 24 percent of the Judges of the Supreme Court Were women. Yet 32 percent of the interruptions of judges in Supreme Corutr hearings by other judges were interruptions of women. [Only] four percent of the interruptiojn of other judges were made by women [Supreme Court Justices.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.