(40 quotes found)
“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
Voltaire
“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
“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”
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.”
“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
“Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.”
Angelina Grimke
“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
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
“the ideologues of his council to arrange what he calls their revolutionary rubbish, such as sovereign people, equal rights, etc.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The idea of equal rights was in the air.”
Lucy Stone
