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Example sentences for "equal rights"

  • Wherever you most need them, there they are; and be assured they will all vote for those who stand by them in the assertion of Equal Rights.

  • We are mechanics, and the machine we are constructing has for its object the conservation of Equal Rights.

  • With unhesitating plainness he arraigned Pennsylvania for her denial of equal rights to an oppressed race, and, rising with the theme, declared that this State had not a republican government.

  • It passes my comprehension how we can require Equal Rights in the Rebel States, when we deliberately sanction the denial of Equal Rights in a new State, completely within our jurisdiction and about to be fashioned by our hands.

  • There was no requirement of Equal Rights as a condition of Reconstruction.

  • This is perfectly conformable to the principle of equal rights: for, in the first place, every man has a right to give an opinion but no man has a right that his opinion should govern the rest.

  • This opinion has already been fatal to thousands, who, not contented with equal rights, have sought more till they lost all, and experienced in themselves the degrading inequality they endeavoured to fix upon others.

  • But if, in the formation of a constitution, we depart from the principle of equal rights, or attempt any modification of it, we plunge into a labyrinth of difficulties from which there is no way out but by retreating.

  • Mitchell, in whom the cause of equal rights to women has an added power on the floor of the United States Senate.

  • The unionist leaders frequently offer verbal homage to the great American principle of equal rights, but what they really demand is the abandonment of that principle.

  • Like all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, they interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.

  • Equal rights must be a consequence of this proof, and not something existing before it.

  • The whites and blacks may have equal rights, and yet be entirely independent, or estranged from each other.

  • At least two thirds of the class are Republican appointees; and not one champion of equal rights.

  • They were repugnant, in this form, to a majority who were demanding "equal rights.

  • She has been not only an advocate of equal rights, but the prophet of humanity; and a better advocate of equal rights because a prophet of humanity.

  • This is the only instance where a woman has bequeathed a large amount of money to the cause of equal rights, although a number of small bequests have been made.

  • July 25 is to be Suffrage Day at Chautauqua, and dear Mrs. Wallace and Anna Shaw are to preach the gospel of equal rights.

  • Then the oppressors of equal rights, seeing that nothing else would do, called into requisition the old craft to divide the Methodists, or, by other influences, to coercively control them.

  • He declared that "the bill assumed authority over the States which has never been delegated to Congress," and "imposes conditions which are in derogation of equal rights.

  • Your school system must be founded on Equal Rights, so that no one shall be excluded on account of color.

  • They profess to have for a motto 'equal rights to all and special privileges to none,' and then they go off into class legislation.

  • Other mottoes were "Through Difficulties to the Stars"; "Equal Rights to All, Special Privileges to None.

  • It is not a question of suffrage merely--suffrage is the smaller part of the woman-question--it is a question of equal rights.

  • In support of this proposition I have only to instance the doctrines promulgated by some of the most advanced advocates of equal rights.

  • I see, in the establishment of equal rights, the first step toward that abyss of immoral horrors so repugnant to our cultivated ethical tastes--the matriarchate.

  • For one who knows these fanatical Albanian tribesmen finds it difficult to understand how they could listen with sympathy and patience to the gospel of universal brotherhood, and the extension of equal rights to Christian and Mussulman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    desire for; equal amount; equal before the law; equal distance; equal division; equal footing; equal length; equal number; equal opportunity; equal portions; equal quantities; equal quantity; equal rank; equal right; equal volume; equal volumes; equal vote; equally applicable; equally true; equally well; full share; good state; last voyage; mere nature; moved away; somewhat curious