“Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
I stand not just for a disability, but I stand for women and women's rights. — Lauren Wasser Copy Share Image
“I interjected saying one would generally have to be human to have human rights.” — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
This is our country, our water. We're entitled to a good life. It's a human rights issue. — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
Protecting basic rights such as freedom of expression enhances social stability. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
One thing I will keep doing for sure is fighting for everybody's rights behind the scenes. — Demba Ba Copy Share Image
The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the… — Mohammed Dahlan Copy Share Image
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
I do not want to be associated with those that are willing to support undermining the basic human rights that socialists have… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either. — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly… — Jonathan D. Morris Copy Share Image
It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which treaty spells out… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Beto's copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image