It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
More and more Republicans are recognizing and respecting the essential dignity of individuals who are gay and deserve the full rights of… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and… — Susan Dorothea White Copy Share Image
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Voting is our right, but it is also our responsibility because if we don't take the next step and elect leaders who… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
In Kashmir, rights relating to life, liberty, dignity of the people, and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, embodied in the… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes. — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Don't judge me or the people around me,they didn't do anything to you.You are not the one that is going to tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
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