Rights Equality Quotes

Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution.

The marriage equality ruling establishes for the American public where the majority already are - which is that love is love and discriminating against a human being based on love is idiotic.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Whatever rights as to each of these enumerated civil (not political) matters the State may confer upon one race ... shall be held by all races in equality … It secures … equality of protection in those enumerated civil rights which the States may deem proper to confer upon any races.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

You've got as much right to lobby here as any steel corporation.

Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Let me tell you this—and you may rely upon it, my dear friend—we will never again see the day when under British rule different degrees of rights and privileges will exist for different classes of His Majesty’s subjects.

It is not force or fear, but belief in the inherent equality of man induces me to support this legislation.

What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.

For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.