Equal Rights

Equal rights can refer to:

  • Equality before the law, when all people have the same rights
  • Human rights, when such rights are held in common by all people
  • Civil rights, when such rights are held in common by all citizens of a nation
  • Women's rights, when such rights are held in common by both men and women
  • Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that intended to advance such a condition for women's rights
  • Equal liberty

It can also refer to:

  • Equal Rights (motto), motto of the state of Wyoming, USA
  • Equal Rights (journal), a 1920s feminist journal
  • Equal Rights (album), a 1977 reggae release by Peter Tosh

Famous quotes containing the words equal and/or rights:

    “Anyone with a real taste for solitude who indulges that taste encounters the dangers of any other drug-taker. The habit grows. You become an addict.... Absorbed in the visions of solitude, human beings are only interruptions. What voice can equal the voices of solitude? What sights equal the movement of a single day’s tide of light across the floor boards of one room? What drama be as continuously absorbing as the interior one?”
    —Jessamyn West (1902–1984)

    “Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)