[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human rights is a transformational document that recognizes the inherent dignity and equal rights of all people. — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I hope to continue to be an activist for kids and teenagers and especially girls who are living with HIV/AIDS, because all… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political-… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights… — Bob Latta Copy Share Image
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans. — David Duke Copy Share Image
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice,… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero. — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
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