Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.