Equal rights

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These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

Anthony Kennedy

Obergefell v. Hodges

On same-sex marriage.

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Topic

Same sex marriage Marriage Constitutional law Gay rights Equal rights American politics

Author

Anthony Kennedy

Source

Obergefell v. Hodges

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Kennedy, Anthony. United States, Supreme Court. Obergefell v. Hodges. United States Reports, vol. 576, 26 June 2015, no. 14-556, pp. 644-742. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/576/14-556/.

I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Sojourner Truth

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Topic

Equal rights Equality Political progress Politics Activism

Speaker

Sojourner Truth

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Truth, Sojourner. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. American Equal Rights Association meeting. 9 May 1867, New York, NY, USA.