Quotes of: Equal-rights Keyword

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

Stephen Ambrose

The start of empowering women comes with acknowledgment of thought that every born child is equal irrespective of its sex. 

Nikita Dudani

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Ezra Taft Benson

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

Michael Franti

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Locke

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

Anastasia Griffith

In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

Andre Holland

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

Antonio Munoz Molina

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Anna Howard Shaw

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Connie Chung

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

Carre Otis

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Gerry Adams

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Joe Baca

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

Joel Kinnaman