Martin Luther King Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.

Obviously my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality in freedom of speech and in tolerance compassion and understanding for people irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people and that's not where equality comes from.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.