“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”
Alice Paul
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“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
“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”
“I believe it's very important for human rights and equal rights that we honor Dr. Martin Luther King. I believe we shouldn't be open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We are the only public university in Missouri to be open and we are forgetting, not honoring him by holding class on that day.”
David Torres
“We live in a democratic society, and it's our constitutional right to have equal rights,”
John Shields
“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
Voltaire
