Equal Rights Party

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 and/or party:

    “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)

    “When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?”
    —Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

    “The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)