Quotes About Equality

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition — with the possible exception of closet space.

Far from undermining marriage, gay and lesbian couples seeking marriage for themselves are perhaps the institution's best friends. At a time when marriage is seen as less desirable and less necessary for straight couples, gay and lesbian people are lining up at town halls and church doors to participate in this traditional and long-standing institution.

The fact is, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people will never be a majority. We are a natural minority within the population. We will never garner enough votes to single-handedly bring about the change we seek. We need heterosexual people to stand with us, vote with us, and be a voice for us where we are not yet welcome.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.

Men want success and sex. Women want everything.

People don't want other people to be people.

Kai might be very non-judgemental when it came to personal gender roles, but he was extremely superior when explaining how non-judgemental he was. "I

students in jeans and duffel coats to people in evening wear. Hot dog stands made no class distinctions

Well then. You better make sure your wife can play too. That's my advice to you, Matthew Flanagan

What they say about females being the weaker sex is the biggest lie in the world.

Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.

many believe that to treat people equally is the fairest way of working. To treat people who are different equally may be the unfairest thing of all.

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.

Democracy is a freak condition in the world's history: civil liberties are not common liberties even today, and most people in the world have never possessed them.

"My lige lady, generally," quod he,"Wommen desiren have sovereyneteeAs well over hir housbond as hir love."

an act of violence based solely on an individual's racial origin is as abhorrent a crime as it is possible to commit, not least because of its futility and utter stupidity. It is a crime for those at the bottom of the gene pool. The work of morons.

The lesson is clear: neither science nor data are democratic. Science is meritocratic and not all data are equal.

Wie lange sollen die Fußstapfen der Freiheit Gräber sein? - Ihr wollt Brot, und sie werfen euch Köpfe hin! Ihr durstet, und sie machen euch das Blut von den Stufen der Guillotine lecken!

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.