President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.
As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.
I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventi...
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal ...
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Honorious: Tell us, why are all apes created equal? George Taylor: Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others.
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things...
We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.
Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
When we are looking for opportunity, we should keep in mind that life itself is an opportunity.
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
