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" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

Susan B. Anthony

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" In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. "

" I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. "

" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

Susan B. Anthony

" 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. "

" Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority. "

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

" I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us. "

" It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Marquis de Lafayette

" I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Shirley Chisholm

" 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. "

" It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one. "

Susan B. Anthony

" Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. "

Susan B. Anthony

" My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans. "

Brett Kavanaugh

" Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations. "

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

" We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. "

Arthur C. Brooks

" The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. "

Susan B. Anthony

" God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity. "

" Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. "

" 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. "

iO Tillett Wright

" I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness. "

" I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace. "

" I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. "

Josephine Baker

" For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality. "

" Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality. "

Rashid al-Ghannushi

" Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be. "

Harley Quinn Smith

" Bumble was founded with several key values: empowerment, equality, and kindness. We are a company that was built to empower women and empower men to respect women. We want to create a place where all types of connections take place: a platform and a brand where women always make the first move. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" 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