I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the… — Samuel Copy Share Image
Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s -… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision… — David Boies Copy Share Image
Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of… — Matthew Coon Come Copy Share Image
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing.… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is… — David Novak Copy Share Image
It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Trump did not reverse a policy that allows the mentally ill to purchase firearms as reporters, media pundits and anti-Second Amendment activists… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image