The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

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.

Well my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent not genius not inventive mental powers.

In Canada women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

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 civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing about equality of treatment for all sections of the people and that is precisely what our movement was about.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions and with key issues like equality and human rights will be tested because obviously there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

The Klan had used fear intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

Well my view before was a Western view and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights equal rights for all but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights and governments need to learn from that listen to the movement and respond.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits and that's what we need.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

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.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law democracy security and sustainable economic and environmental development.