Billie Jean King Quotes

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

We are building together a nation in which there are no second-class Australians.

Democrats believe in a New South because no matter your race, immigration status, income, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity, we all have the same aspirations for high-quality education, jobs, neighborhoods, health care, and retirement.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

We stand for equal rights and opportunities for all irrespective of color, creed, cast, sect, gender, ethnicity or religion. We strive tirelessly for tolerance, religious or otherwise and oppose fanaticism, terrorism and violence in all their manifestations.

Equality is equity.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

I've always been bothered by systems that don't work for everybody. It doesn't mean we're all equal. I am not naive about that. But we should have a more inclusive society.

I thought equality was non-negotiable.

Ain't a soul on the planet that's better than another.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

Equality is a mortuary word.

We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

I just believe in equality for all.