Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full image of God has had a way of sparking reform movements across the centuries.

A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

Bütün uyuyanlar? uyand?rmaya bir tek uyan?k yeter.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.