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" In my late 20s, I realized that I had a very clear social conscience and strong opinions about things like diversity, equality, and education, and while I tried to become more politically literate, I just couldn't catch on. It felt like I had walked into a movie that had already started, and no one would explain what had happened. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

Strong

Diversity

Education

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" Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere. "

" I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination. "

Palaniappan Chidambaram

Discrimination

Worst

Equality

" I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Passion

Respect

" If wearing a weave is what makes you feel beautiful, if wearing a wig, if wearing your hair pink, blue, that's what matters, in my opinion. "

" American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. "

" Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. "

" I eat in the same philosophy that I live with: joyfully! "

" We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would deny opportunity based on what we look like or where we came from or who would deny equality based on who we love. "

" If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. "

J. K. Rowling

Measure Of A Man

Equality

" I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there. "

" I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. "

" The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality. "

" American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life. "

" Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice. "

" I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. "

" Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. "

" As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. "

" Regardless of what race, what color, what sex, what nationality, what sexual orientation - regardless of who you are, equality should always rule! Whatever is right for you is right. Period. "

" The battle for women's rights has been largely won. "

" I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. "

" For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality. "

" Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. "

" Terrorism does not disappear with revenge tactics but through making justice and equality before law a reality. "

" My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved. "

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Equality

Leadership

People

" It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. "

" My goal is to make space for my selfhood. All of it. All of me, not just the parts I like or think that others like but all of it. "

" Vivek is a very supportive man. If I am in the kitchen doing something, he comes and helps. I don't think marriage will change anything for us. Our careers will not be affected after marriage. He believes in gender equality and is a man of today's time. "

Divyanka Tripathi

" The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. "

" 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. "