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When I look at my daughter, whos 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. – Frances OGrady

I would point out that Japans 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

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We dont want it to be something the majority is voting on. I dont think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority. – Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a womans equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldnt get pregnant. – Kathleen Parker

It wouldnt be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. – Michael Kinsley

As a result of Americas efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. – David Horowitz

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women arent. And its just not – there is no equality there. – Connie Chung

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and thats not where equality comes from. – Matt Bomer

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that were fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We dont want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it. – Christopher Cross

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggys experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I dont take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual – scene to scene. – Elizabeth Moss

Martin Luther King, Jr. didnt carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag. – Adrian Cronauer

Family law is institutionally anti-male. Ive been lobbying MPs, and Im not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality. – Louis de Bernieres

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankinds great achievements in the 20th century. – Tran Duc Luong

The Nordic countries are leading the way on womens equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale. – Johanna Siguroardottir

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 dont pan out. – Laurence Tribe

Demands for equality for women are threats to mens self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. – Alice S. Rossi

Perfect love cannot be without equality. – Scottish Proverb

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable. – Anon.

Six feet of earth make all men equal. – Proverb