“Sturdy sons of America are forced to tramp the country in a fruitless search for bread, and many of her daughters are driven into the street, while thousands of tender children are daily sacrificed on the altar of Mammon. The reign of these kings is holding mankind in slavery, perpetuating poverty a…”— Emma Goldman, marxists.org
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all human beings, irrespective of race, color, or sex, are born with the equal right to share at the table of life; that to secure this right, there must be established among men economic, social, and political freedom; we hold further that government ex…”— Emma Goldman, marxists.org
“It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in our country’s efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens. Recent events in the United States and abroad have made us realize that it is more important today than ever before to insure that all Americans enjoy these r…”— Harry S Truman, americanrhetoric.com
“Nevertheless, in order to produce more equality and uniformity in the defense of any doctrine, its fundamental principles must be committed to writing. May these two volumes therefore serve as the building stones which I contribute to the joint work.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“From the man of highest mental cultivation, to the most degraded wretch who staggers in the streets do we hear ridicule and coarse jests, freely bestowed upon those who dare assert that woman stands by the side of man—his equal, placed here by her God to enjoy with him the beautiful earth, which is…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ecssba.rutgers.edu
“[W]e must remember that we cannot hope to achieve democracy and equality in such a way that would destroy the very kind of society which we hope to build. If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we m…”— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com
“You're never gonna get that corner office until you start treating Don as an equal. And no one will tell you this, but you can't be a man. Don't even try. Be a woman. Powerful business when done correctly.”— Robin Veith, Bobbie Barrett, Melinda McGraw, imdb.com
“The work of the National Woman’s Party is to take sex out of law-to give women the equality in law they have won at the polls.”— Alice Paul, nationalwomansparty.org
“I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do; but it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.”— Alice Paul, fembio.org
“It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women….Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ign…”— Alice Paul, nationalwomansparty.org
“There is danger that because of a great victory women will believe their whole struggle for independence ended. They have still far to go. It is for the Woman’s Party to decide whether there is any way in which it can serve in the struggle which lies ahead to remove the remaining forms of woman’s su…”— Alice Paul, nationalwomansparty.org
“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”— Alexis de Tocqueville, amazon.com
“Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.”— John McCain, pbs.org
“We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. How can we be created equal if there's a guy over here sitting on the corner, blind, with no feet, trying to make it, and there's another guy out there running around in a new Cadillac with two girls o…”— Willie Nelson, esquire.com
“I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.”— Martha Stewart, oprah.com
“I just don't think equality is there at all. And it's not only women. It's inequality for young people, old people, women, minorities—there's no balance. We're seeing that in the world. People feeling that there's an incredible lack of genuine fairness.”— Danny DeVito, theguardian.com
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with wh…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com