It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living":… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender,… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If you truly believe in being pro-choice then the man should also have that choice and he does not. He is at… — Mbm Copy Share Image
People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them… — Nathaniel Altman Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents:… — Nafis Sadik Copy Share Image
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?"… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for… — Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Copy Share Image
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
Given the National Organization for Women's membership and proclivities, it's no wonder that people now view the NOW gang as being obsessed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution. — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
