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.
I rise today in support of Bill C-38 the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage' as it is called is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work and it is a gamble.
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could with equal validity assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt for which we blame our partner.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.