#equal right

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#badge #basic #basic things #being #empowerment

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#certainly #civil #civil rights #create #deep

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#describe #equal #equal rights #factor #feminists

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all. ↗

— Evo Morales

#diversity #equal #equal rights #new #republic

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#equal #equal rights #family #fighting #had

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#action #add #always #around #because

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#books #chapter #country #enough #equal

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#equal #equal rights #mother #people #rights

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#believe #believe in yourself #enough #equal #equal right

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#enclose #equal #equal right #formations #great