Nelson Mandela Quotes

Down syndrome kids can learn. Like Corky. That's the way I feel about it... For those kids who have Down syndrome, to give them a chance.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

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

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

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.

But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.

The State shall ensure gender balance and fair representation of marginalized groups on all constitutional and other bodies

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

[To his then-Press Secretary:] Give me some jokes for my statement on behalf of retarded children.