Toni Duggan Quotes

I am passionate about human rights.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

I'm someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination.

Together, we will continue to build a stronger, more inclusive community, and send a strong message to those who spread hate: there is no room for prejudice in our neighborhoods.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

I have never been racist.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.