There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights. — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are. — Merle Miller Copy Share Image
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die. — Shane Barbi Copy Share Image
Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Don't judge me or the people around me,they didn't do anything to you.You are not the one that is going to tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is true that the principle of national citizenship, associated with rights, and the control of a country's borders are two key… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well?… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere. — Tamzin Merchant Copy Share Image