We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law. – Lyndon B. Johnson
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don’t pan out. – Laurence Tribe
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. – Mikhail Bakunin
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event. – Richard Attias
I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination. – Palaniappan Chidambaram
I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism. – Roxane Gay
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. – Raoul Vaneigem
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. – Robert Bork
Feminism is just an idea. It’s a philosophy. It’s about the equality of women in all realms. It’s not about man-hating. It’s not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years. – Roxane Gay
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. – Rosa Parks
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson
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. – Robert Mugabe
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. – Rowan Williams
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. – Patricia Ireland
If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. – Robert Kennedy
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. – Robert Casey
I’m trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible. – Robin Thicke
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. – Robert Toombs
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl. – Shirley Chisholm
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson
Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That’s me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free). – Rick Perlstein
In Canada, women’s rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality – not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others. – Paul Martin