Famous Quotes About equality

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.