I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Wouldn't life be easier if we just stopped comparing ourselves to others? We are all the same, no one is higher or… — Anastasia Blanchard Copy Share Image
Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Americans do not apply egalitarianism to the organization of their individual minds. I have yet to see the American Project for freedom… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
We have to remember that it's usually women who are making the health care decisions for their families… True equality would mean… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
“Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unprincipled violations of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results. First, every man will have a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Equality and justice demand only a society so organized that every single human being will—from birth through adolescence and maturity—find therein equal… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Equal rights should extend to everyone. Homosexuals cannot be excluded because their relationship is unavoidable conspicuous. Same-sex couples are entitled to the… — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
“We were all here to learn. He was the one who had a problem, not I. Perhaps it was time for fathers… — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“We believe some people are more special, more beautiful, more capable, more influential, more intelligent, more gifted, and have a greater capacity… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“And the man who learns most from the levelling and himself becomes greatest does not become an outstanding man or hero--that would… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“What I don’t understand is how some people say they can recognize the necessity to provide people with equal treatment under the… — Natalie Perry Copy Share Image
With the full power of our 360,000 people, we said to the external world, 'This is what we believe at Accenture is… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
The foundational principles of modern liberalism - civil rights and greater economic equality - took further strides during Johnson's presidency than any… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image