Equal Rights
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- I’m absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn’t be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
- [1991] doesn’t feel that long ago to you and me. But…a generation of people who don’t even know that it happened are now going into work and experiencing this. They see the signs now that say ‘sexual harassment is prohibited,’ but they don’t know how we got there.
- The only reason [being called a thug] bothers me is because it seems like it's the accepted way of calling somebody the N-word nowadays.
- I understand how big this is. It's a big deal. No one has done this before. And it's kind of a nervous process. But I know what I want to be ... I want to be a football player in the NFL.
- I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men… I don't drink coffee.
- Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
- Look, we’ll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.
- Part of "rape culture" means that we have a kind of Pavlovian response to when we hear a rape occurred…Not only do we have like this kind of knee-jerk response to blame to victim, but that we actually have a very sophisticated profile of what a victim looks like and why she needs to be blamed. So that there's no thinking - no thought process - about the perpetrator in this case. "What was he doing at one in the morning? Why was he at a place where there was alcohol?
- On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks defied the codes of racial segregation, igniting a civil justice movement that continues today.
- I am very sad to see that the Olympic Games in Sochi, for which we have so long and anxiously prepared, will come to pass with less brilliance and passion because of this unfortunate initiative that was so hastily -- and I believe without thoughtful discussion -- adopted by parliament.
- You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.
- This country has a marvelous way of including more and more people in every generation.