Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons regardless of race or gender may have the opportunity to earn respect responsibility advancement and remuneration based on ability.

I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong regardless of gender?

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments not on my gender.

I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities through legislation and other means and to increase women's representation in politics which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape sometimes out of one's cultural myths and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Revenge only engenders violence not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class age gender culture.