Accounts Quote by Alice Paul

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

— Alice Paul

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to…

— Leland Stanford

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes…

— Lyman Trumbull

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of…

— George W. Romney

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

— Tom G. Palmer

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

— Carolyn Maloney

Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody…

— Barack Obama

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in…

— Anonymous

Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the…

— Marquis de Sade

If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal…

— Barack Obama

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero