Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want
women to get theirs, and read more

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want
women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step
into the pool.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many read more

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper read more

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator read more

We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.

I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual read more

I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It's wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It's wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right.

Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in
that being, whatever may be the sex read more

Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in
that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will read more

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.