Eric Reid Quotes

If I only care about equality for transgender people, then I am leaving so many people behind - if I'm not at the same time seeking to end discrimination against people of color, seeking to end discrimination against women, seeking to ensure that people of every religious background have an equal opportunity.

I certainly believe in equal rights.

We still have work to do in our efforts to advance equal rights for all Americans.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

In the dispensation of justice, no distinction is to be admitted, whether between the man of wealth or the poor man, the master or the slave, the European or the Hottentot.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

As commissioner, I will attempt to see that no man is judged by the irrational criteria of race, religion, or national origin. And I assure you, I use the word 'man' in the generic sense, for I mean to see that the principle of nondiscrimination becomes a reality for women as well.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.

Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

I want racial and gender equality.

Equality should be a thing we don't even have to talk about anymore.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.