Equal Rights Quotes - Page 9

• 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 justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Rights, Practice

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• 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 rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.

  Pauley Perrette

  Believe, Rights, Support

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• 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.

  Pauley Perrette

  Men, Rights, Color

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

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Rights, Constitution

  "Let’s Put It in Writing: Women Are Equal" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• 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 the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them.

  Thomas Sankara

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.

  Patricia Arquette

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  "Patricia Arquette Just Made a Rally Cry for Women at the Oscars" by Justine Harman, Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. February 23, 2015.

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• 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 of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Men, Rights

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• 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 men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.

  Annie Lennox

  Strong Women, Mean, Opportunity

  "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.

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• 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.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Crazy, Rights

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• All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

  Edmund Burke

  Equality, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.403

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• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  Patricia Ireland

  School, Fighting, Men

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• I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

  John Quincy Adams

  Believe, Rights, Order

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• We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, Jobs, Hate

  "Charlize Theron Is ELLE's New Cover Star". ELLE Interview, www.elleuk.com. May 5, 2015.

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• The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted."

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Teaching, Law

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• I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

  John Lennon

  Rights, Class, Space

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• Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing M*A*S*H; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Home, Writing, Kids

  "Portrait of the artist: Sanjeev Bhaskar, actor and comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2010.

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• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

  Marlo Thomas

  Women, Equality, Feminist

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Errors, Rights

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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• 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.

  Ronee Blakley

  Mean, Rights, Law

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• 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.

  Patricia Arquette

  Spiritual, America, Rights

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.

  Julius Evola

  Sports, Military, Men

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• The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Equality, Rights, Connections

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• I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

  Farah Diba

  Children, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Believe, Rights, Should Have

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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