Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.

I recognize no rights but human rights—I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.

Here, no privileged orders – no factitious distinctions in society – no hereditary nobility – no royal prerogatives exist, to interpose barriers between the people, and to create distinct classifications in society. All men being considered as enjoying an equality of rights, the propriety and necessity of dispensing, without distinction, the blessings of education ….

This is one country. It has become that way because all people who have come here had an equal right to develop their talent.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

In the long run it is more important to us as a nation to show the world that we believe in equality of opportunity, that we realize that any kind of segregation is discrimination whether it comes about because of race, color, or creed, and that we are determined to show the world that we believe in the things we preach.

If affirmative action is quotas, then I am not for it. If it means equal opportunity, then I say support that. But to ask for special treatment because of race, that bothers me...

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I have always been for absolute equality of privileges and obligations.

As commissioner, I will attempt to see that no man is judged by the irrational criteria of race, religion, or national origin. And I assure you, I use the word 'man' in the generic sense, for I mean to see that the principle of nondiscrimination becomes a reality for women as well.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

I want my kids to grow up in a world where everybody gets a fair shot.

Everybody's equal. Everybody should deserve the same opportunity, the same challenge, the same whatever.

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

I believe in equal rights for all people.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.