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" Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls. "

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" I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there. "

" 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'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality. "

" Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion. "

" 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. "

" People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time. "

" I think people are understanding that I'm immensely proud of my father. If people talk to me about him, I'll certainly respond. And there's a certain generation that still talks about him right off. And I take that with gratefulness and with gratitude. "

" I am so proud of my family, and I am happy to give them all the limelight they want because heaven knows I got more than I need. "

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

Francois Hollande

" I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels. "

" Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality. "

Louis de Bernieres

" 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. "

" The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights. "

" I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. "

" I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. "

" 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. "

" Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth. "

" I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. "

" Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" I believe it is wrong for Canada to follow the path of countries who exploit large numbers of guest workers, who have no realistic prospect of citizenship. It is bad for our economy in that it depresses wages for all Canadians, but it's even worse for our country. "

" It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. "

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

" 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

" 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

" We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity. "

Ferdinand Mount

" As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. "

" True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. "

" I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all. "

" The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. "

Leonard Boswell