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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. "

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Eleanor Holmes Norton

" While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality. "

" We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough. "

" America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law. "

" The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. "

" Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. "

Susan B. Anthony

" We must remember that although we come from different backgrounds and ideologies, we're all part of this great experiment in self-governance. We're all united by common values of liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity, even if we don't always agree on how to achieve them. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" Sweden's development is based on the equal rights of men and women. We know that investments in gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights pay off. "

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

Antonio Munoz Molina

" Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically. "

" It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. "

Michael Kinsley

" 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. "

" There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players. "

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

" I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it. "

" 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

" My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity. "

" I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want. "

" Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them. "

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" I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. "

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" We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. "

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" I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it. "

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

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Palaniappan Chidambaram

" The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.