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" 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. "

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" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

Susan B. Anthony

" I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country. "

" The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve. "

" It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody. "

" There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust. "

" And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so. "

" Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. "

Maximilien Robespierre

" We live in a world where equality is pretty important. "

" The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. "

" I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. "

" The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization. "

" I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion. "

Anastasia Griffith

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

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

" In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth. "

" I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label. "

" We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would deny opportunity based on what we look like or where we came from or who would deny equality based on who we love. "

" The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. "

Arthur Hugh Clough

" Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy. "

" Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. "

" The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. "

" Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. "

" Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice. "

" The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' "

" We are convinced that gender equality is the foundation of sustainable peace and development and that gender-based violence needs to be addressed head-on as part of the efforts to build peace. "

" Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region. "

" 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. "

" We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men. "

" The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. "

" Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant. "