Katie Hill Quotes

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.

Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

With the removal of questions about gayness and transgender status in the Census, we really stand to lose a lot of the progress that has been made, and certainly not to make further progress. In order to have a fair system, you need a system you can measure.

There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

The only thing that's serious to me about music is making sure marginalized people are included in the story.

For those who support same-sex marriage - and I support it without reservation - the ideal of equality and the belief in the dignity of same-sex relationships necessarily makes the issue seem a great deal like the civil-rights struggles of the past.

The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.

I think that more and more Americans are insistent that, at a minimum, gay couples should be treated with respect and when they see a political party trying to stigmatize a group of people who are hardworking, who play by the rules, who raise decent families, they're troubled by it.

I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.

If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.

It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

I suspect that it would be impossible to arrange an affirmative action program in a racially neutral way and have it successful. To ask that this be so is to demand the impossible.

Judges cannot mandate Black or Hispanic excellence.

Where the effects of past discrimination persist, society has an obligation to take positive steps to overcome the legacy of injustice. Judiciously administered affirmative action programs in education and employment can be important expressions of the drive for solidarity and participation that is at the heart of true justice. Social harm calls for social relief.

Rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

This country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of non-discrimination.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.