I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people,… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
India's democracy where over 1 billion people have a voice in deciding their future is a world example of how governance can… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values,… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment,… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Any human being has a fundamental right to fight for their rights, but that (own right) can not include anything that is… — Venkat Gandhi Copy Share Image
We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe… — Laura Antoniou Copy Share Image
Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these… — Holly Mosier Copy Share Image
I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We came to see the benefits for working people of common employment rights, guaranteed throughout the EU to prevent a race to… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
If you have some legally sanctioned relationship with the bundle of legal rights traditionally belonging to marriage and governing authority has slapped… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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