Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

There can be no truer principle than this—that every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

While men differ in their natural endowments, they must be treated as equal citizens in the eyes of the law; that they should possess equality of opportunity and be afforded some minimum of social benefits.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

Equality is truly sweet.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

Asserting the equality of all men before the law, we hold that it is the duty of the government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and exact justice to all citizens, of whatever nativity, race or persuasion—religious or political.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.