I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We believe in traditional values because without them, without the belief in an all-powerful God, then the very founding of our country… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and respect the user's voice. And that's important… — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
For my grandfather, there was no distinction. There was no tension between his support for civil rights for black people and his… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Our kids are our future. They deserve every possible opportunity to start their day with enthusiasm, encouragement and food in their stomachs.… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
There are three billion women in the world who have vaginas. I don't think we can stop fighting for our sexual liberation,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their… — Marek Edelman Copy Share Image
The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
Christian fundamentalists seek to roll back women's right to choose in the United States, and then also insist that money against Aids… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids.… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
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