It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together… — Radhika Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
I do wear a lot of hats, and sometimes people get confused with all that I do, but one thing that I… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Even among the ancients the more grown-up knew that the source of right is power, that right is a function of power.… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it… — Vittorio Arrigoni Copy Share Image
If the Chinese government gets carried away with denying basic rights, then there will be a pushback from within. — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is. — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury… — Silvia Cartwright Copy Share Image
Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups… — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Copy Share Image
The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to go backwards on our reproductive rights, we must legislate love, we must legislate justice for Black girls and… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
