3 December 2020 Paul Martin In Canada, women’s rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality – not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Bakunin From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
3 December 2020 Bob Ney Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
3 December 2020 Robert Casey Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
3 December 2020 Irving Kristol Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
3 December 2020 Jack Kemp Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation’s pockets of poverty.
3 December 2020 Rosie O'Donnell The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can’t be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who’s is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn’t.
3 December 2020 Robert Bork The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
3 December 2020 Tran Duc Luong Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind’s great achievements in the 20th century.
3 December 2020 Laurence Tribe There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don’t pan out.
3 December 2020 Brigid Brophy I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
3 December 2020 Frances O'Grady When I look at my daughter, who’s 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
3 December 2020 Hilary Rosen As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.
3 December 2020 Patricia Ireland I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer We are all different. Yet we are all God’s children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
3 December 2020 Crystal Eastman Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
3 December 2020 Kofi Annan Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
3 December 2020 John Hume The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
3 December 2020 Agnes Macphail I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
3 December 2020 Charles Fourier The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
3 December 2020 Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
3 December 2020 Anne Campbell 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.
3 December 2020 Ed Miliband 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.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville 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.
3 December 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
3 December 2020 Bashar al-Assad Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
3 December 2020 David Allan Coe All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
