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 by equal rights:
“The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone’s sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.”
—Alison Neilans. ‘Justice for the Prostitute—Lady Astor’s Bill,’ Equal Rights (September 19, 1925)
“The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ‘That is not what I meant by freedom—it is only ‘social progress.’’”
—Helene Deutsch (1884–1982)