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  It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

  Harvey Milk

  Inspiring, Gay, Rights

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

  Marc Morial

  Mother, Queens, Differences

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• Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Democracy, Conviction, Unshakable

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• Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Race

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• The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Religious, Believe, Democracy

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• 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.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Facts, Nonsense, Assault

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.109, Harvard University Press

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

  Martha Plimpton

  Too Much, Way, Shows

  Twitter post from Mar 5, 2012

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• The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

  Herbert Croly

  Civilization, Organization, Achievement

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, Choices, Decision

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• As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

  Harper Lee

  Inspiring, Growing Up, Eye

  "Harper Lee Gets a Request for a Photo; Offers Important Life Advice Instead (2006)". www.openculture.com. July 27, 2015.

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• Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

  Walt Whitman

  Rights, Giving, Chance

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.425, NYU Press

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• The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Creative, Way

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• 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.

  Marian Anderson

  Inspirational, Positive, Women

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• I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Hate

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Dark, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Long, Firsts, Mankind

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• For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Would Be, All Things

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Rights, Connections, Development

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• Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Respect, Rights, Empowering

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• In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Future, Rights, Design

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• The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Justice, Tolerance

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• Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

  Kathleen Parker

  Pregnancy, Men, Feminist

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• The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

  Ralph Bunche

  Race, Unesco, United Nations

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• I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

  Amartya Sen

  Real, Women, Opportunity

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• A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

  H. G. Wells

  Children, Mean, Opportunity

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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