Equal Rights Party may refer to:
- Equal Rights Party (Canada)
- Equal Rights Party (United States), four different 19th century American political parties
- Liberia Equal Rights Party
- Equal Rights (Latvia)
Famous quotes containing the words equal rights, equal, rights and/or party:
“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 freedomit is only social progress.”
—Helene Deutsch (18841982)
“I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“I wish the womens rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (18421911)
“Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 14661536)