I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies. — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights. — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights… — Questlove Copy Share Image
I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
There was a time when women social activists asked men to stand up for their rights, but this time we will do… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
We are not exercising our democratic rights properly. We need to stop looking for solutions in others. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as… — John Marshall Harlan Copy Share Image
Charities who support animal rights are actually asking people to show their obligation by doing fundraising or similar. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.” — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“Never place yourself above your fellow man, for we are all, each and every one of us, born of equal rights to… — Becca Lee Copy Share Image
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“There were times when a man must assert his rights to what was properly his, and he had as much right on… — The Gordons Copy Share Image
“Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
To ask for 'our rights' is our right... the state may or may not accede to our demands... but our right to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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