Equal Rights Quotes - Page 13

• I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

  Zoe Saldana

  Leadership, Queens, Play

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• Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, Ignorance, Responsibility

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

  Josh Hutcherson

  Rights, People, Bigs

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Christian, Men, Rights

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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• All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

  James K. Polk

  Rights, Citizens, Birth

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• While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naïve as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.

  Michael Huffington

  Country, Religious, America

  "Turkey Has No Place in the European Union" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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  I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

  Sojourner Truth

  Rights, Years, Would Be

  Sojourner Truth (1999). “Book of Life”, X-Pr

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• Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Tyrants, Inalienable Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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• I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Believe

  "In His Own Words: President Obama's Nuanced View on Gay Marriage". Remarks At Human Rights Camapign Dinner, www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2009.

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• For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Men, Opportunity

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• 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.

  Andrew Cohen

  Rights, Who We Are, Equal

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• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

  Pamela Anderson

  Believe, Rights, Doors

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Animal, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Rights, Giving, Cash

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

  Lucy Stone

  Rights, Law, Justice

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

  Tom Clancy

  Jobs, Men, Rights

  Tom Clancy (2002). “The Sum of All Fears”, p.323, Penguin

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• You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?

  Malala Yousafzai

  Leadership, Girl, Education

  "Watch This Incredible Young Woman Render Jon Stewart Speechless". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, www.upworthy.com. October 10, 2013.

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• Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. [...] Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.

  James Madison

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Letter to Jacob De La Motta, printed in "Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, vol. 3" (1867), August 1820.

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• The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical Corporations. [...] The establishment of the chaplainship to Congs. is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Evil

  "Monopolies. Perpetuities. Corporations. Ecclesiastical Endowments". Essay by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. Circa January 31, 1820.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Individual

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.69, Modern Library

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• There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Eye, Class, Justice

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• Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Education, Money, Reality

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• In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Leadership, Wisdom, Strong

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• [Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.

  Jonathan Capehart

  Family, Mom, Mother

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• It's a struggle every day, to stay present, not to become that...eight year old who was bullied and chased home from school. Some days I wake up and it's like I'm eight years old again. And I'm scared for my life, and I don't know if I'm going to be beaten up that day.

  Laverne Cox

  Struggle, School, Home

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