Well my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago during a time of segregation these were an ideal.

Give us equality of enjoyment equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

The basis the corner-stone of this Government was the perfect equality of the free sovereign and independent States which made it.

In a society in which equality is a fact not merely a word words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

America 5 years after this brutal attack is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person larger than any one nation.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.