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 rights, equal and/or rights:
“Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of men ... ours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in the infringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)