Lucy Stone Quotes

Women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men in the exercise of suffrage ... and in all other respects.

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

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

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Equal Rights

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

All men & women are created equal

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

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

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

We are glad and proud to think that even in so conservative a body as the Legislative Council there is a majority of men who are guided by the principles of reason and justice, who desire to see their womenkind treated as reasonable beings, and who have triumphed over prejudice, narrow-mindedness and selfishness