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" Many people say, ‘Your dad was so ahead of his time,’ and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he’s very much for opportunities for all people… To him, a soccer player is a soccer player. " - Jill Ellis

" Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people. " - Indya Moore

" During all the years I entertained at the Baby Grand night club in Harlem, 90 percent of the audience was white. But when I tried to break Into television, I was told that white folks wouldn’t understand what I was talking about. " - Nipsey Russell

" Work is valued by the social value of the worker. " - Gloria Steinem

" I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues. " - Barack Obama

" In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. " - Cesare Beccaria

" Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can’t swallow that. " - Xavier Becerra

" Whether it’s public housing, or project based Section 8, or mandatory inclusionary housing, or rent regulated housing, there should be a national strategy for maximizing the amount of social housing in the United States. " - Ritchie Torres

" No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty. " - Martin O'Malley

" I do think we have a long way to go in terms of the culture around women still being career women, and asking a woman about her career and her work, just seeing them as fully validated human beings in the workplace. " - Corin Tucker