Equal Rights Quotes

History will show that Gov. Schwarzenegger had a chance to end the last vestige of legal discrimination in our state... Instead of choosing the way of the future the governor has aligned himself with the enemies of equal rights for all. - Fabian Nunez

For mother all children are at equal place as before God His entire creature has equal rights and status. - Unknown

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. - Thomas Jefferson

Drive away transgressors and to rule I quality. Equal rights and justice stands for I and I all. - Big Youth

Apparently, Governor Schwarzenegger has ripped a page from President Bush's re-election playbook... Rule number one in the 'Bush-Rove Guide to Running on a Record of Failure' is to demonize groups of people and use them to divide the electorate by rallying the extremists in your base. It's the only way to explain Governor Schwarzenegger's promise to veto the California marriage equality bill after pledging just last year to support equal rights and responsibilities for California's LGBT families if approved by the courts or the legislature. - Howard Dean

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. - Thomas Jefferson

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws. - Voltaire

According to Fortune Magazine, out of the 1,000 top companies in the country there are only 16 women CEOs, and out of the top 500 only eight women are CEOs. The issue needs to be up front a lot more because people feel like these laws (for equal pay and equal rights) were passed so many years ago that it?s now a done deal, but we are so far from being clear. - Terry DiRusso