Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
Well my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.
Give us equality of enjoyment equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent not genius not inventive mental powers.
In Canada women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
The rights of one sex political and otherwise are the same as those of the other sex and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing about equality of treatment for all sections of the people and that is precisely what our movement was about.
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.