Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection support justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less it grows feeble and when they disappear it will vanish too.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane human being has ever given his assent.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

While civilization has been improving our houses it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free they claim to be absolutely equal.

In the sick room ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Civil marriage like all civil rights provided by the government must be provided equally to all Americans.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior unjust and unconstitutional.