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" I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. "

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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

" The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. "

" It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. "

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

" It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates. "

" Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. "

" Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century. "

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

" In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support. "

" Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event. "

" 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

" All this talk of equality remains merely on paper. In real life, women are still bound by several psychological shackles and emotional boundaries imposed on them by their families and others. If a girl comes home late, she is asked 100 questions, whereas boys are not answerable for anything. And this prevails across segments. "

" The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV. "

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

" We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. "

" Gender equality is essential for ensuring that men and women can contribute fully at home, at work, and in public life for the betterment of societies and economies at large. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl. "

" What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force. "

" Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation. "

" Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing. "

" After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom. "

" Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. "

Crystal Eastman

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

Patricia Ireland

" I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality. "

" Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal. "

" It's important to reflect upon how far we've come in achieving gender equality in the workplace and how we could move faster toward even greater goals. "