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I have supported the equal rights amendment since I was a freeholder. You won't find many people who can say that. I'm very proud of it.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

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.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.