I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that the people of Arizona as a nation couldn't do better to protect equal rights for all than the… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights… — John Bonifaz Copy Share Image
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until… — Ben Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability… — Moby Copy Share Image
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom.… — Jack Herer Copy Share Image
It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For some of Britain's most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate.… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending… — Moshe Arens Copy Share Image
Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Asour counterterrorism approaches evolve,we cannot waiveronhuman rights andfree expression. Because ultimately,our steadfast commitment to thoserightsand freedomsare our most powerful counterterrorism tool of… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment,… — Jackie Huggins Copy Share Image
If you're an American citizen and you decide to join up with ISIS, we're not going to read you your Miranda rights.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Men, specifically in the West, have no rights of passage, no way to know when they become a man. Everywhere else in… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image