Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They say Kejriwal fights a lot. Yes I do, but not for my wife or children. I fight for your rights. So… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society… It became part… — Max Meyer Copy Share Image
There are a variety of groups, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Sierra Club, that are groups that do very good work,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America has become and was the exception to the way most of the people in the world were forced to live, because… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood,… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights. — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it… — Eqbal Ahmad Copy Share Image
We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak. — Jeff Bewkes Copy Share Image
As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right. — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive. — Steve Clevenger Copy Share Image
All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called 'same-sex marriage' and 'transgender' nonsense trampling the rights of Christians. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit. — Mark Russinovich Copy Share Image
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