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Quotes About Equality

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
~ Billie Jean King
The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.
~ Uma Thurman
Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
~ Evan Wolfson
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
~ Aeschylus
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
~ Nancy Pearcey
It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
~ Anna Wickham
I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.
~ Cyndi Lauper
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
~ Jay-Z
Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.
~ Herbert Otto Gille
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
~ Cory Booker
Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.
~ Vaughn Walker
I'm in an interracial marriage.
~ Harold Ford, Jr.
The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.
~ Molly Peacock
Love either finds equality or makes it.
~ John Dryden
There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.
~ Lance B. Wickman
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.
~ John Legend
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
~ Hillary Clinton
I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.
~ Hillary Clinton
If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .
~ Guru Nanak
There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.
~ Ron Paul
Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.
~ Ron George
Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.
~ Benjamin Disraeli