Equality Quotes

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Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women -… — Sonia Johnson
If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us… — Nancy Friday
It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field,… — Alice Paul
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. — Alice Paul
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of… — Frances Wright
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyoneâ€™s different needs. — Terry Eagleton
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all… — Max Nordau
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a… — Anna Howard Shaw
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be… — Leland Stanford
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as… — Jay-Z
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… — Mike Gabbard
Marriage equality is "a threat to the nation's survival in the long run." — Trent Franks
...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid… — Justin Timberlake
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. — Cory Booker
The other states look to New York for the progressive direction. New York made a powerful statement [legalizing marriage equality], not just for the people… — Andrew Cuomo
The health of a society is truly measured by the quality of its concern and care for the health of its members . . .… — Sadullah Khan
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;… — David Hume
We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet… — Shirley Chisholm
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our… — Swami Vivekananda

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