Equal Rights Quotes

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

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 conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

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 freedom, it is only social progress.

I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.

In Russia all people enjoy the equal rights, including homosexuals.

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 marriage rights.

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

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 words work.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

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 of all color to demand equal rights.

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

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

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 them to others.

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 a concept you can really shoot down.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

We are the children of one creator. We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal.

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother.

We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other.

The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

Women empowerment begins at home!