Top 1200 Equal Rights Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

At the end of the day, these are issues that need to be discussed: femicides, among other things - immigrant rights, women's' rights, indigenous people's rights, animal rights, Mother Earth's rights. If we don't talk about these topics, then we have no place in democracy. It won't exist. Democracy isn't just voting; it's relegating your rights.

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

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

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

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.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

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

Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.

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

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.

Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.

I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

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.

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

I'll happily pay more taxes if we all have equal human rights.

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

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

What we're trying to push, as a group, is just equal rights.

I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

I think we do stand in this nation for equal rights for everybody.

We should have equal rights. We should have equal opportunities. We should have equal opportunities for jobs.

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

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

When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.

Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

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.

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.

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

For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.

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

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

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

It's the most ludicrous thing when people protest equal rights of other human beings.

Women's rights are women's rights. One of the things that woke me up was equal pay. I started thinking about it: Who is the leader of women? Take me to your leader. And there were no leaders.

Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

If we're discussing women's empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

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

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

The concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible task, it can only be accomplished with the total rejection of the idea of the voluntary contract... The idea that a businessman must hire anyone and is prevented from firing anyone for any reason he chooses, and in the name of rights, is a clear indication that the basic concept of a free society has been lost.

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.

We still have work to do in our efforts to advance equal rights for all Americans.

American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and films say about who women [are] has global ramifications. There is a burden and a responsibility when you are someone who is very aware of how far we've yet to travel in granting women equal rights and equal respect and you are creating cultural products. You have to be responsible and be aware of the message that you are sending out.

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

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

Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.

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