It is a strange fact that freedom and equality the two basic ideas of democracy are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered freedom and equality are mutually exclusive just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense a fraud a lie and the workers want no lying.

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.

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

Jackie Robinson as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality he was exemplary.

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

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.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not in opening our schools to everyone confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor the rapist instead of the raped the murderer instead of the murdered.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

The perfection of our union especially our commitment to equality of opportunity has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said 'In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.'

Take your message of equality of achievement take your message of economic dependency take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

OK in all seriousness I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality generosity integrity spirit kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Equality is the public recognition effectively expressed in institutions and manners of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament not by Jesus but by Paul that say women should not adorn themselves they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

You see Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa and if we're honest conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.