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" 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. "

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" I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. "

Hussein of Jordan

Work

Man

I Am

" Am I feminist? I don't know. I'm not really sure what that is. I am all up for equality to a certain extent, although in the home, I do feel this is where the mother excels and the man needs to step back a bit. My family is from Nigeria, and this is our culture. "

" As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it. "

" And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so. "

" Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. "

" Sweden's development is based on the equal rights of men and women. We know that investments in gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights pay off. "

" Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. "

" The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. "

" I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do. "

" In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States. "

" The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. "

" Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. "

" Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country. "

" There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality. "

" We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. "

Lionel Trilling

Equal

Poor

" Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality

Freedom

Than

" I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts. "

" Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality. "

" We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Sex

Equality

Feminism

" My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved. "

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Equality

Leadership

People

" It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states. "

" I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. "

" Equality implies individuality. "

" I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership. "

" Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community. "

" The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise. "

" The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence. "

" Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority. "

" Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities. "

" Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as economic development, around the world. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Young

Education

Equality