Equal Rights Quotes - Page 5

• Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

  Leyla Zana

  Struggle, Fighting, Rights

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• It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too. Oppression doesn't exist in Islam. And in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally... This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times.

  Yousef Saanei

  Mean, Reality, Men

  "Iran at the Millenium, by Robin Wright". Excerpt from The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2001), www.pbs.org.

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• Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

  Francoise Giroud

  Sex, Rights, Mediocre

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• The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Mean, Men

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• Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

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• The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

  Ted Cruz

  Father, People, History

  "Cruz: 'Tragic,' 'Indefensible' That Supreme Court Chose to Not Hear Marriage Cases" by Sen. Ted Cruz, www.dailysignal.com. October 6, 2014.

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• I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Compassion, Animal, Rights

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Sleep, Gay

  "Charlize Theron: I Won’t Get Married Until My Gay Friends Can", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

  Sean Penn

  Eye, Gay, Thinking

  Sean Penn's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2009.

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• He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?

  Barbra Streisand

  Mother, Son, Gay

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• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Dignity, Born Free

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

  Aziz Ansari

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "Aziz Ansari Explains Why We Should All Be Feminists" by Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. October 8, 2014.

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• We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Mother, Daughter, Law

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• Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights.

  John Quincy Adams

  Sweet, Powerful, Blessed

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• The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Rights, Europe

  Bernard Lewis (1993). “Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East”, p.148, Open Court Publishing

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• To deny an entire group of people the ability to be legal couples is anti-American and anti-freedom. As a devoted husband and father of two, I can't imagine the state of Minnesota not recognizing my love for my wife Isabelle. We would welcome and respect the equal rights for gays to experience the same joy and privileges of marriage that we do.

  Chris Kluwe

  Couple, Husband, Father

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• There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights and educating people around the world about the persistence of homophobia. Rather than boycott, I, along with several amazing organizations including Athlete Ally and All Out, plan to use the Sochi Games as a teachable moment for the world.

  Greg Louganis

  Athlete, Gay, Persistence

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• The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.

  James Madison

  Religious, Rights, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

  Wendell Willkie

  Men, Rights, America

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• The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

  Qiu Jin

  Home, Rights, Justice

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• If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.

  Wyclef Jean

  Country, Mean, Rights

  "Wyclef Jean: The pop star who would be president" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Destiny, Rights

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• Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wise, Men, Rights

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• [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

  James Howe

  Gay, Rights, Lgbt Pride

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