“Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.” Has BeensStruggleIssuesRightsMinesBattleResponsibleDearCivil RightsCourageousRelentlessPioneersDear FriendMarriage Equality Author:David Mixner
“The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.” ShouldHateGoneForeverRightsBattleI HateToneWomens Rights Author:Margaret Thatcher
“This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.” RightsBattlePerformancesPaidSongwritersDownloadsSyncTurfBaloney Author:Jonathan Potter
“I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.” ThinkingFightingWinningRightsBirthBattleAbortionKeep GoingTerritoryAgain And AgainDepressingBirth ControlParityWomen's HealthVery Depressing Author:Erica Jong
“Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.” PoliticalWinningGivenRightsBattleDiscriminationOppressionMinorities Author:Gloria Allred
“I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.” StatesFightingLostLibertyDemocracySawsRightsProgressCivilizationBattleDestructionFilledSavedChecksRedemptionStakesRejoiceSovereignMournConfederateAbsolutismSecessionWaterlooStates RightsRichmond Author:Lord Acton
“We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.” StillsTodayPayIssuesRightsBattleEqualAbuseEtcGlobesOngoingParentalEqual PaySuffragettesParental Rights Author:Sarah Gavron
“Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliché, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.” MenEyeFightingRightsBattleFeministReactionaries Author:Xavier Dolan
“The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.” FirstsRealHomeChanceRightsCenturyBattleTwentiesAccessCivil Rights Author:Jack Kemp
“Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.” KnowsSaidRightsBattleFameEssenceBiggerCollectionsHallsSmarterQuotationsBraggingHall Of FameBragging Rights Author:Willis Regier
“The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.” LostLosesRightsBattleEqualMajorsSlaverySilentDenyHomosexualEqual Rights Author:John Shelby Spong
“When I looked at [Fannie Lou] Hamer and that speech it seemed to me that she had to be the bravest woman ever, to come before that body and to assert her rights, when she knew that she was going lose that battle. But she did it anyway, because she knew she was speaking not just for herself and for that day, but for me, and for all the other young women who were coming behind her. She didn't know our names, but she was working for us. I find that incredibly empowering.” KnowsBodyYoungNamesLosesBehindsRightsBattleSpeechEmpoweringYoung Women Author:Leah D. Daughtry