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" 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.

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" To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. "

" If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have. "

" In 1965, I marched for equality. "

Alphonso Jackson

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

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

Arthur Hugh Clough

" I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership. "

Patricia Ireland

" In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality. "

" Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy. "

" Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. "

" For those who support same-sex marriage - and I support it without reservation - the ideal of equality and the belief in the dignity of same-sex relationships necessarily makes the issue seem a great deal like the civil-rights struggles of the past. "

Benjamin Wittes

" Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years. "

" That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. "

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" I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken. "

" Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated. "

" Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality. "

" All imaginable futures are not equally possible. "

" If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters. "

Christine Pelosi

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

" It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. "

" The most sacred duty of the President of the United States of America is to defend and protect the Constitution and the principles it enshrines: freedom, fairness, and equality. "

" My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved. "

Eleanor Holmes Norton

" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. "

" 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

" No, I didn't think of myself as an idealist. I consider myself as a believer in what I regard as the Labour Party's basic principles, which have to do with equality and 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. You know, the golden rules. "

" One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive. "

" 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

" If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community. "

" Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. "