What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. - Charlotte Bunch 1 Share Now -
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal. - Glenn Greenwald 2 Share Now -
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. - Geoff Hoon 3 Share Now -
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. - Michael Sandel 4 Share Now -
The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise. - Earl Wilson 5 Share Now -
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. - W. E. B. Du Bois 6 Share Now -
I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want. - Yuna 7 Share Now -
Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border. - Gary Johnson 8 Share Now -
Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case. - Jim Brown 9 Share Now -
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 10 Share Now -
