Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

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.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

The more equality women have the fairer more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

There will always be a place for us somewhere somehow as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have everything they hope to get for dignity equality democracy to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

The equality that we are all entitled to as citizens of this democracy can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law and equality not separation was written into the law.