North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Joining a union makes it more powerful and in turn strengthens the rights of all workers. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Defend yourselves! If people don't defend their rights, they lose them. — Max Mosley Copy Share Image
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt. — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . . — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political… — Lucy Burns Copy Share Image
What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can… — Willa Gibbs Copy Share Image
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18. — Guler Sabanci Copy Share Image
Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have… — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
My first and foremost consideration is the safety of the people of the city of Minneapolis. And my first and foremost consideration… — Betsy Hodges Copy Share Image
Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe,… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely… — Navi Pillay Copy Share Image
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero. — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.” — Warren Gamaliel Harding Copy Share Image
All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image