99 Quotes About Equal-rights

I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven’t exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.

The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.

Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.

We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

What an interesting species we are …We walked the moon, explore distant planets, cure diseases, sequence DNA, decode the workings of the brain, create instant global communications… but also need to have Supreme Court cases to decide whether some people should have the same rights as others.

While the country had legally made all men equal, they'd heard enough reports to know that bigotry festered and continued to kill with equal malice.

No matter how many obstacles we face from birth—the outcome of letting loose love and showing up marks humankind— for success wins human equality, discretely.

The worst insult of the woman has been to see her for just the sexual desires instead of the companion of your life with equal rights.

Men justify the women taking care of the kids and the house and holding down a job because, after all, men are the primary breadwinners in the family. But that’s because we fucking pay women less! Men claiming superiority over women because men make more money than they do is like claiming you’re stronger than a lion that you tranquilized and put in a cage. Sure, you’re in a better spot now—but how ’bout you unchain the beast and see what happens?