Sharice Davids Quotes

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. The right to play on any playing field? You have earned it. The right to study in any school? You have earned it. The right to hold a job? You have earned it. The right to anyone's neighbor? You have earned it.

LGBTQ people deserve to live, work, raise families, and succeed just like anyone else - and LGBTQ kids deserve to grow up in a country that supports and encourages them.

Everyone - regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age - should be able to fulfil their potential and succeed.

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

Equal opportunity does not come from tolerance; it comes from acceptance.

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

We all have as much right to take up our space in the world as one another.

I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person - not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom - to be accepted as me.

I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.

I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.

In the creative community, there's no excuse for not making a more equitable environment.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

Michael Sam will help us, and we'll give him every chance to succeed, and you know what? It's gonna be pretty cool.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.

This country gave us hope. This country allowed for us to develop our own identity and to create our own home. And we should not look down on the next person that is trying to do that.

I think Pride, it means ultimately, finally, being able to live with freedom in some ways. Or, at least, that's what we're striving for.

As leaders, I think we have to give people in many places a chance to have success, not continue to put those people down.