Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Samuel Alito
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
Mary Douglas
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
Patricia Ireland
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Charles Fourier
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner
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.
Crystal Eastman
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
Tarja Halonen
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
Charlotte Bunch
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison
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