While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization,… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
“[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation… — United Nations Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as someone for equal rights. I don't mind being called a feminist, and I get really… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
Feminism means to me aquality, actually. Women having equal rights to every thing the male population have in all aspects. Whether that's… — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
“Thomas Nast published an election cartoon entitled “Victory!” that showed Grant mounted on a white horse, waving a flag bedecked with the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“Being a holy people included seeking justice. The Sabbath and Jubilee Year practices gave everyone equal rights, freedom, and second chances. Slaves… — Doris Rikkers Copy Share Image
The truth is, even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface there are… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“We must beware of any attempt to make hatred in any form the basis of action. Most emphatically each of us needs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are… — Emma Sulkowicz Copy Share Image
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not… — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
It's a struggle every day, to stay present, not to become that...eight year old who was bullied and chased home from school.… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
“Love is not getting high on fantasies of romance, the perfect lover, absolute happiness and sexual ecstasy. Love is based on a… — Anselma Dell'Olio Copy Share Image
Equal rights for women. I agree with that concept. But we will never be free, we will never obtain equality, until we… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment,… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal… — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Our boys need to look up to older people around them, especially male figures, to be able to express their full person… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that… — Joan Hackett Copy Share Image
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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