I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs. — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children. — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country. — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday. — Steve Marmel Copy Share Image
Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person,… — Maria Julia Hernandez Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Voting rights is how we address the deepening divides in our country, by ensuring every eligible voter's voice is heard. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Women's rights is an important and challenging question for us to be asking. It focuses attention on a global issue that in… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is a mighty document, but the rights it secures require constant vigilance - and the unwavering voices of justices who… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. — David Price Copy Share Image
I am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
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![“We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated…” quote by Chuck Woolery](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/877/chuck-woolery-16119_african-american_we-were-born-with-natural-rights-we-don_48287.png)
