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" For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll. "

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" We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. "

Arthur C. Brooks

" I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. "

" Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has. "

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

George Smathers

" Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. "

" If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it's everybody's responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights. "

" There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women. "

" I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me. "

" Denying that the issue of marriage equality has changed is being on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of love and commitment. "

" The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. "

Charles Fourier

" Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea. "

Chrystia Freeland

" When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality. "

Frances O'Grady

" Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. "

" Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. "

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

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

John F. Kennedy

" Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example. "

" Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality. "

Francois Hollande

" The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman. "

" 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. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well. "

" Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. "

" From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

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" Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. "

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale. "

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