- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Equal Rights Quotes
Fairness stated plainly.
These equal rights quotes cite the United Nations Charter's humanistic values as one of the century's great achievements, grounding Equality in shared civic principle.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Hegel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just all for equal rights and stuff like that, but I'm not like one of those 'Yay empowerment' type of people.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community. That's going to be with me 'till the day I die and beyond. I mean, that's just what it is!
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have supported the equal rights amendment since I was a freeholder. You won't find many people who can say that. I'm very proud of it.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020