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" Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples. "

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" 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

Peace

Opportunity

Myself

" If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society. "

" The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. "

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

" I think when you're talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that they're used to making, which really doesn't have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about. "

" At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered. "

Carol Gilligan

Justice

Equality

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

" A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. "

" Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization. "

" In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed. "

" Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. "

" It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs. "

" The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior. "

" Despite saying the letters 'LGBTQ' at the RNC, Donald Trump consistently endorsed anti-equality positions. "

" All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. "

Rudyard Kipling

People

" The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East. "

" We live in a world where equality is pretty important. "

" Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. "

" I think, for me, with regard to my parents, my biggest fear was not that they would reject me but that I would disappoint them. That by coming out, I would simultaneously dash my own dreams and their dreams for me, and I was afraid of letting them down. "

" An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new. "

Antonio Munoz Molina

Now

Equality

" All men are born equally free. "

" Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. "

" When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them. "

" One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. "

" I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause. "

" The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. "

" In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough? "

" The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama's economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn't really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that's putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves. "

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

" Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them. "

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Responsibility

Place

Faith