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" There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality. "
Stephanie Coontz
Made
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" Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. "
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" I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. "
Hideki Tojo
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" Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. "
Samuel Johnson
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" 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. "
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" Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. "
Khalil Gibran
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Equality
Learn
" Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people. "
David Cameron
Will
Equality
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" To qualify the term 'boss' by adding 'girl' or 'babe' or 'honey' or 'pink' or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world. "
Rachel Hollis
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" Transforming our societies and our economies is an agenda that requires the participation of all. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are key. Including and empowering women and girls to develop and implement climate solutions is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing to do. "
Patricia Espinosa
Gender
Equality
Key
" Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. "
Barbara Jordan
Brain
Equality
Green
" Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel. "
Ayman Odeh
Equality
Israel
King
" 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. "
Little Simz
Believe
Balance
Race
" We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development. "
Hugo Chavez
Peace
Respect
Father
" To my mind, it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place. "
Stephanie Coontz
Place
Marriage
Good
" Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical. "
Stephanie Coontz
Relationships
Existence
Marriage
" A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system. "
Stephanie Coontz
System
Motivation
Legal
" It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states. "
David Boies
Case
Equality
Important
" On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. "
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Family
Road
Women
" 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
Honor
Business
Success
" 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. "
Lyman Trumbull
Same
Equality
Nor
" From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs' tentacles infiltrate all parts of America's public debates. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Safety
Marriage
Gun
" 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
Effort
People
Love
" Denying that the issue of marriage equality has changed is being on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of love and commitment. "
Ana Navarro
Commitment
History
Marriage
" Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. "
Alexis de Tocqueville
One Word
Socialism
Democracy
" All men are born equally free. "
Salmon P. Chase
Equality
Born
Men
" As an overly confident college freshman, the first time I received a below-average score on an exam was a needed wake-up call. "
Stephanie Coontz
College
Confident
First Time
" Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare. "
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Equality
End
Balance
" 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. "
Isabella Lovin
Gender
Equality
Know
" As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love. "
Stephanie Coontz
Divorce
People
Marriage
" Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations. "
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" I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people. "
iO Tillett Wright
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Know
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