I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions. — Francoise Giroud Copy Share Image
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
More and more Republicans are recognizing and respecting the essential dignity of individuals who are gay and deserve the full rights of… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and… — Susan Dorothea White Copy Share Image
It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights,… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“The natural rights which he retains are all those in which the Power to execute is as perfect in the individual as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
“No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms. — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights. — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
![“[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice.” quote by Alexander Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/841/alexander-hamilton-619_civil-liberties_if-you-understood-the-natural-rights-of_545533.jpg)
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