Equal Rights Quotes

166 Equal Rights quotes by 141 unique authors

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their… — Benjamin F. Wade
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if… — Barack Obama
A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only… — Malala Yousafzai
Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say… — Leighton Meester
If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the… — Thomas Sowell
Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves. — Andy Rooney
You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships. — Elton John
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should… — Elton John
Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights among the nations.… — Ehud Barak
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great… — Tran ?uc Luong
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny… — Tammy Bruce
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things. — Edmund Burke
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.'… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many… — Annie Lennox
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession… — Marquis de Sade
Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in… — Thomas Sankara
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the… — John F. Kerry
A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social… — John F. Kennedy
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal… — Aviva Chomsky
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore… — William Jennings Bryan
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and… — Pranab Mukherjee
I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil… — Pauley Perrette
In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people… — Pauley Perrette
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned. — Carolyn Maloney

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