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Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for equality.
In a democracy, you have the right to say what you want, but don't forget about equality: are you putting someone else down by saying it?
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.
Denying that the issue of marriage equality has changed is being on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of love and commitment.
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.
Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his show.
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan
I rage when Boris Johnson is more interested in sucking up to Donald Trump than standing up for British values of decency, equality and respect.
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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 purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.