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" By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore. "

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" If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. "

John F. Kennedy

" The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. "

" The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. "

" 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. "

" Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. "

" Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech. "

" 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. "

" The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex. "

Stephanie Coontz

" The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population. "

" Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility. "

" 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. "

" Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked. "

" Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice. "

" I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness. "

" Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0. "

" The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength. "

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

" Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down. "

" A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. "

Hjalmar Branting

" The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them. "

Nicholas Kristof

" I don't believe in social equality, and they know it. "

George Smathers

" 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

" I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. "

" Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. "

" I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. "

" We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. "

" The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. "

" The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations. "

" The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice. "

Marquis de Lafayette

" I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality. "

" More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. "