The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength. - Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. - Kofi Annan
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. - Mary Douglas
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. - Betty Buckley
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. - Arthur Hugh Clough
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. - Gerry Adams
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. - Anne Hathaway
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. - Bob Ney
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. - Bono
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. - Hjalmar Branting
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. - Mary Daly
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. - Robert Casey
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated. - Tom G. Palmer
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously. - Bashar al-Assad
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. - Benjamin Tucker
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. - Lyman Trumbull
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. - Mark Pryor
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about. - John Hume
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children. - Carol Bellamy
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. - Plato
Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice. - Anne Campbell
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. - Thomas Malthus
If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers. - Hedy Lamarr
A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan. - Mary Daly
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. - Arthur Henderson