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" Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing. "

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" I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Respect

" The battle for women's rights has been largely won. "

" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

" I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance. "

" For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate. "

" I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else. "

" I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised. "

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

" China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results. "

" I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance. "

" There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality. "

" Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy. "

" 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. "

" Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. "

" Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. "

" The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality. "

" Wonder Woman is most definitely a feminist, or a humanist, in no uncertain terms. Her prime goal in life is to teach peaceful coexistence and equality. "

" 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. "

Richard Attias

Gender

Equality

" I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God. "

" 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. "

" I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life. "

" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "

" When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality. "

" President Clinton's support of the LGBT community and recognition that DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional and should be struck down shows that the political landscape continues to change in favor of LGBT equality. Leaders and allies like President Clinton are critical to moving our march for equality forward. "

" There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. "

" My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha. "

" We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality. "

" The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation. "

" Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. "

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