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, equal, rights and/or party:

    You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.
    —Mary Bell-Richards. “Protective Legislation in England,” Equal Rights (October 3, 1925)

    Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.
    Malcolm X (1925–1965)

    The women’s liberation movement at this point in history makes the American Communist Party of the 1930s look like a monolith.
    Nora Ephron (b. 1941)