Unequal Rights Quotes

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

Quebec women are treated like sows.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

To attempt to explain a system like segregation to a 6 year child is a very difficult thing.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Freedom and equality! They are not to be found on the earth below or in heaven above. The stars on high are not alike, and all obey an iron-like law.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League of Nations would even now have to be satisfied with a whole series of non-equal and thus ultimately dishonorable and inferior nations.

…when Rights are placed upon, or made dependent upon property, they are on the most precarious of all tenures.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.'

Injustice drives me crazy!

It's stupid, just because I was born with a French passport, I have the right to travel all around the world, but if I was born in Mali, or Venezuela or Bolivia I couldn't.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

[Referring to the Philippines:] Freedom and its blessings are a reality for a minority and an illusion for the many.

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application.

It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don't share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their labor.