Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself! — Macklemore Copy Share Image
People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Animals have no safety net in society, no voices of their own, and very few rights under the law. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky Copy Share Image
Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I requested people to strengthen my hands with a view to ensuring justice for Tamil Nadu and its due rights. — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Kuwait will continue to be the final goal, her words will keep being the standing point.. Who works for her, nurtures her… — Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Copy Share Image
The world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the]… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence… — Helen Chenoweth-Hage Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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