“In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.” PeopleMenRightsMovementColorNeededDemandEqualCivil RightsEqual Rights Author:Pauley Perrette
“The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.” PeopleMenFeelsPlayAmericaFightingIssuesRightsColorHe ManHugeTruth IsGayEqualSurfaceEqual RightsGay PeopleRights In America Author:Patricia Arquette
“Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.” TodayGivenRightsStudentsColorSkinsDeniedHarvardFashionable Author:Al Capp
“The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.” FeelsMightPoliticalPartyRaceResponsibilityPrinciplesSupportTakenRightsGroupsColorCitizensRepublicanEqualTraditionAccountsConstitutionPopulationDiscriminationCivil RightsAfrican AmericanGuaranteesQuartersSuggestionsRepublican PartyMaintainingEqual RightsOathPolitical Rights Author:Calvin Coolidge
“African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.” MenHeartStatesFeltInterestUnitedLibertyUnited StatesFireRightsSubjectsColorOughtDecidedBreastsBosomsLivelyFree ManHeart Felt Book:Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches Source: Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches
“There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.” HumansBigsCareAmericaBornRaceRightsColorGoes OnWho You AreHuman RightsDon't CareDebateCivil RightsI Don't CareArtificialCreedsWhere You Come Author:Julian Bond
“I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching!” PeopleYearsFirstsMeanLittlesKidsGuyRightsColorSouthScaredCivil RightsProtestLgbtWomens RightsSkinnyGeorgiaKkk Author:Pauley Perrette
“My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.” PeopleWorldMotherParentIssuesRightsMovementColorFeministActiveCivil RightsActivistMarginalizedFeminist Movement Author:Anna Holmes
“Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.” MenJusticeRaceRightsConditionsColorEternalPrejudiceCalmScalesGoldenDustShakesBalancedCastes Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.” MenFactsHeavenTermRaceHellClearRightsColorEqualElectionCreedsEmployersHeaven And Hell Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?” KnowsWould BeFightingLostTalkingRightsFeminismColorArgumentGrateful Author:Margaret Cho