The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle…goa ts are used for sacrificial… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back… — David Boies Copy Share Image
We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to… — George Weah Copy Share Image
When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
The lovely thing is, if Marvel had a Spider-Man movie over at Sony or something, they own the rights to the character,… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it,… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
I'm not a civil rights activist or an activist in general. I just think we all carry a responsibility based on who… — Trevor Lawrence Copy Share Image
I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) appears to have matured into a corporate government department that strips workers of their legal rights… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility. — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer.… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I do not want to be associated with those that are willing to support undermining the basic human rights that socialists have… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image