This collection holds 76 marriage equality quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Tom Brower, Jo Jordan and Andrew Cuomo.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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You want one civil war, brah?

I'm not here to promote your pride.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

The momma bears are demanding, 'Protect our kids.'

This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.

The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.

How many more gay people must God create until we realize that he wants them here?

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

It's detrimental not to support marriage equality, even just on a financial level.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Even when I was dating a man I always said I'd never get married until marriage equality was passed in Australia. It wouldn't feel right.

Denying that the issue of marriage equality has changed is being on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of love and commitment.

If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.

I'm an actor first and foremost. But I've also started an organization, Broadway Impact, that advocates for marriage equality. I'm an actorvist.

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality.

If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married?

There's certain issues, as I say in my speeches, that I'm not going to compromise on; I'm not going to compromise on a woman's right to choose and on marriage equality.

OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement for marriage equality in Washington.

I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

The marriage equality ruling establishes for the American public where the majority already are - which is that love is love and discriminating against a human being based on love is idiotic.

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

While I have supported marriage equality since my days as a state senator over a decade ago, I have since conducted an extensive legal analysis that has only emboldened my support as attorney general.

I would find it difficult to be involved in an effort that I think disenfranchises people from a fundamental right. How do you work with people who are opposed to marriage equality? I don't want to do it.

I'm a pro-choice candidate and I support marriage equality - my brother is actually gay and married. But I'm a pretty hard-headed guy when it comes to the budget and whether you're getting a bang for your buck.

All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.

In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.

In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

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