Equal Rights Quotes - Page 2

• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• 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 for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights-that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Selfish, Rights

  Radio broadcast, March 2, 1930.

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• No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Respect, Freedom, Equality

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

  Whitney M. Young

  Brother, Hate, Men

  "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.

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• I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

  Betty Ford

  Believe, Rights, Citizens

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• 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 as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Rights, Government, Views

  William Jennings Bryan (1914). “The Royal Art”

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

  Angelina Grimke

  Art, Women, Rights

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• Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

  Benjamin Rush

  Religious, Time, Art

  Misattributed to Benjamin Rush in "Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey" by Terry Dorian, p. 49, 2002.

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• Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

  Myrlie Evers-Williams

  Brother, White, Crow

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• The idea of equal rights was in the air.

  Lucy Stone

  Rights, Air, Ideas

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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

  Andy Rooney

  Rights, Speak, Equal

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• We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

  Annie Lennox

  Fashion, Powerful, Mean

  "Cosmo meets... Annie Lennox". Interview With Fiona Cowood, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2012.

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• The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable state of freedom which alone can ensure to man the enjoyment of his equal rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

  Louise Slaughter

  Men, Rights, Ideas

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• I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word marriage. Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

  Ani DiFranco

  Christian, Smart, Eye

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

  Betty Buckley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

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• There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.

  Gail Collins

  Hate, Rights, Order

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Uprising, Feminist

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.2575, e-artnow

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• We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Women, Empowering, Feminist

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.268, Northwestern University Press

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• No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Native American

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• Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?

  Maria W. Stewart

  God, Freedom, Equality

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

  James Meredith

  Father, Equality, America

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