• "Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality." - Johann Lamont Tweet
• "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." - Nancy Pelosi Tweet
• "Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves." - Maximilien Robespierre Tweet
• "Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity." - John O. Brennan Tweet
• "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.'" - Paul Ryan Tweet
• "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France Tweet
• "Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism." - Barry Goldwater Tweet
• "A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." - Friedrich August von Hayek Tweet
• "Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations." - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Tweet
• "It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing." - Herodotus Tweet