I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes…

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political…

— Abraham Lincoln

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which,…

— Abraham Lincoln

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result,…

— Estelle Freedman

“Citizens no longer understand democracy to mean a condition of political equality, in which one person gets one vote, and every individual is no…

— Thomas M. Nichols

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings…

— Clara Zetkin

Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do…

— John Bonifaz

My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

What would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political equality, or…

— Judith Butler

It is crucial to maintain the political equality among the member states, which is fundamental to the community. At the same time we have…

— Andrzej Duda

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

— Steven Pinker