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" If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years. "

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

" I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fairness is not about statistical equality. "

" Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality. "

" The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold. "

" Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. "

" The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. "

Shirley Chisholm

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

" 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

" Never before has a major professional sports team partnered in this way with a female-driven brand like Bumble. It's an honor to partner with an organization as progressive and compassionate as the Clippers. Like us, they know generating awareness for diversity and gender equality is critical to business success. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. "

" I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. "

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

" Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. "

" While I have supported marriage equality since my days as a state senator over a decade ago, I have since conducted an extensive legal analysis that has only emboldened my support as attorney general. "

" As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. "

Arthur Henderson

" Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven. "

Jackie Robinson

" Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as economic development, around the world. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. "

" A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings. "

" Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. "

" Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about. "

Clementa C. Pinckney

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

Rudyard Kipling

" Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility. "

Marquis de Lafayette

" 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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" Bumble is about equality. We are reverse-engineering traditional societal norms. "

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" The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. "

Hjalmar Branting