Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality. – Pratibha Patil
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. – Geoff Hoon
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered. – Carol Gilligan
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. – Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality. – Tarja Halonen
The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution. – Carolyn Maloney
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. – Maureen Reagan
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. – Anna Howard Shaw
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
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity it is service. – Arthur Hugh Clough
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing. – John Hope
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. – Harlan Stone
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
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions. – Slobodan Milosevic
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. – Slobodan Milosevic
The sweltering summer of the Negros legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbors rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. – Carl Schurz
The battle for womens rights has been largely won. – Margaret Thatcher
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. Its not Islam. – King Hussein I
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: Its a girl. – Shirley Chisholm
