A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson


All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson


Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln


Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln


I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi


I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
- Abraham Lincoln


I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
- Ronald Reagan


I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
- Michael Jordan


Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
- Newt Gingrich


In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
- Hillary Clinton


It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
- Ronald Reagan


Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
- Colin Powell


My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.
- Kurt Cobain


Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
- Thomas Jefferson


Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates


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


The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
- Abraham Lincoln


These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
- Abraham Lincoln


Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln


Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
- Atticus Finch


Women who seek to be equal with mean lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe