Equal Rights Quotes

166 Equal Rights quotes by 141 unique authors

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an… — Jacque Fresco
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew… — Andrew Jackson
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and… — Patrick Pearse
Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away.… — Vittorio Arrigoni
Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans, — Ken Mehlman
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the… — Maya Angelou
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. — Alice Paul
I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog — Zach Braff
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by… — Helene Deutsch
I've always opposed gay marriage. I believe that we should provide equal rights to people regardless of their sexual orientation but I do not believe… — Mitt Romney
I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice. — Peter Tosh
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. — Vladimir Lenin
It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and… — Ban Ki-moon
We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women — Sima Samar
Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and… — Larry L. King
Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not… — Lena Dunham
Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others. — David Boaz
If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how… — Aziz Ansari
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. — Leyla Zana
I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism… — Unknown Author
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed… — Frances Farenthold
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our… — John Stark
Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of… — Victor Hugo
To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights… — Patricia Arquette

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