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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.
My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.
An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.
The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.
The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?
We strive for equality and equality in mental health matters as much as anything else. I see it as an imperative, not a choice.
Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.
Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities.
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation's history.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.