No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms. — Stjepan Mesic Copy Share Image
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
“To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Foreign relations should involve human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection. — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom… — William Weld Copy Share Image
For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“Rights have to be asserted. Animals cannot make such assertions. We have to make representations to ourselves on their behalf.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community… — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre,… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Right and responsibility go hand in hand. You can't give rights to those who are not responsible. If you want to let… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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