Scott Fujita best Equality Quotes – “In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don’t know where to begin. And perhaps that’s part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?”
Zadie Smith best Equality Quotes – “My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity… that’s the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren’t given equality of opportunity.”
Tariq Ramadan best Equality Quotes – “This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.”
John Reid best Equality Quotes – “It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.”
Jon Tester best Equality Quotes – “Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I’m proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.”
Lupe Fiasco best Equality Quotes – “I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.”
Paloma Faith best Equality Quotes – “You know, my mum’s always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.”
Christina Romer best Equality Quotes – “If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America’s infrastructure needs are enormous.”
David Mixner best Equality Quotes – “Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.”
Christine Pelosi best Equality Quotes – “President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.”
Christine Pelosi best Equality Quotes – “When we talk about feminism – equality without apology for all – we can’t be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.”
Christine Pelosi best Equality Quotes – “If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.”
Robin Thicke best Equality Quotes – “I’m trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.”
Tim Johnson best Equality Quotes – “After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn’t require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.”
Jesse Tyler Ferguson best Equality Quotes – “As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last – those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.”