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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. — Millard Fillmore

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

The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well. — Cassandra Duffy

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

Saying of the Prophet
Reflection
The Faithful are mirrors, one to the other. — Idries Shah

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother. — Debasish Mridha

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is? — Moutasem Algharati

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

I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community. — Sara Ramirez

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice. — Alison Bechdel

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work. — Aziz Ansari

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. — Helen Suzman

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

Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't. — Ricky Gervais

Modern redistribution is built around a logic of rights and a principle of equal access to a certain number of goods deemed to be fundamental. — Thomas Piketty

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! — Leon Bourgeois

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. — Audre Lorde

EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared. — Abner Cole

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

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. — Callie Khouri

God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods — John Green

This wasn't the Dark Ages, and she wasn't living in a third world nation where women didn't have any rights and were treated unequally. — Missy Lyons

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain. — Katherine Boo

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old. — Meghan Trainor

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul. — Billie Jean King

We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. — Allan Dare Pearce

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all. — Roseanne Barr

Even in a perfect world, where everyone was equal I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequal — Elvis Costello

We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other. — Amen Muffler

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

Women empowerment begins at home! — Alex Haditaghi

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

The idea of equal rights was in the air. — Lucy Stone

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

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. — Colette

Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes. — John Fugelsang

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

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

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

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women — Sima Samar

She wants to be treated as an equal, not like a goddess or a statue. — Auliq Ice

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

Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states. — Hannah Arendt

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening. — Mary Griffith

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

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible. — Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. — Vladimir Lenin

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

we must all be guarded by equal rights from one another's greed, because we are fallen. — C.S. Lewis

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

Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. — Michael Ignatieff

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

Two rights don't equal a left. — Roald Dahl

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

minority groups too often demand equal rights they haven't earned, — Anonymous

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual. — Robert Green Ingersoll

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves. — Kat Graham

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. — Emma Goldman

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction. — Frances Wright

Power within
A wiser woman kin
I cannot give her
The proper word
She is worth so much more
She is the one that should be adored — Maddy Kobar

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

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental. — Thomas Jefferson

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. — Thomas Jefferson

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. — Robert G. Ingersoll

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock." — William Rehnquist

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all. — Hillary Clinton

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal. — Harri Holkeri

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all. — Martin O'Malley

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights. — Ellen DeGeneres

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things. — Edmund Burke

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. — Chief Joseph

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things. — Charles James Fox

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans. — Ken Mehlman

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice. — Peter Tosh

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. — Clare Boothe Luce

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

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work. — Karen Morley

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

If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves. — Auliq Ice

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others. — Dave Champion

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

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. — Harper Lee

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal. — Thomas Jefferson

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

I don't say women's rights - I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog — Zach Braff

We are the children of one creator.
We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal. — Ellen J. Barrier

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

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

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

The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged. — Janelle Gray

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility. — Olympe De Gouges

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life! — Kristen McKee

The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor. — Mohsin Hamid

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