Michael Steger Quotes

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

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

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.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

All of us, we deserve to survive.

All sports for all people.

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

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

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.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

People want to see this America, this real America.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

This country demands that every race measure itself by the American standard. By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail…