Equal Rights Quotes - Page 12

• I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Believe, Rights, Should Have

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn't mean that it's an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious freedom, human rights and equal rights for women.

  Walter Kasper

  Religious, Mean, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Military, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Animal, Rights, Care

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• The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

  John Shelby Spong

  Rights, Battle, Slavery

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• The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mean, Rights, Government

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3250, Library of Alexandria

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• What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.

  Betty Ford

  Baby, Opportunity, Men

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• Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Men, Rights

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• I think it's kind of awkward when everyone knows you're gay but you don't say it. I had been thinking about coming out for almost a year before I did. I thought about it seriously on the plane ride home from the World Cup, while I was casually talking to my friend Lori Lindsey. She said, "Dude, you should just come out." She was right. Everyone in my life already knew. If you want to stand up and fight for equal rights but then won't even stand up for yourself and say "I'm gay" - that just started to feel weird.

  Megan Rapinoe

  Home, Fighting, Gay

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• We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Rights, Long

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• I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Rights, Socialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Rights, Liberty

  Gerrit SMITH (of Peterboro, N.Y.) (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.296

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• He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.

  John Stuart Mill

  Rights, Support, Community

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.385, OUP Oxford

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• I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

  Farah Diba

  Children, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

  Thomas Sowell

  Struggle, Rights, Media

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• I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

  John Quincy Adams

  Believe, Rights, Order

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• We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, Jobs, Hate

  "Charlize Theron Is ELLE's New Cover Star". ELLE Interview, www.elleuk.com. May 5, 2015.

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• The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted."

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Teaching, Law

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• The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.

  Julius Evola

  Sports, Military, Men

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• I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

  John Lennon

  Rights, Class, Space

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• 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.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Home, Writing, Kids

  "Portrait of the artist: Sanjeev Bhaskar, actor and comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2010.

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Errors, Rights

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.

  Ronee Blakley

  Mean, Rights, Law

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

  Patricia Arquette

  Spiritual, America, Rights

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Fighting, Russia, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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