Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's a good bet that if Jesse Jackson calls something a 'civil rights issue,' it's not. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I'm drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Millions of people have been lifted from poverty and have gained access to modern education and health care. We have a universal… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses.… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values… — Rosika Schwimmer Copy Share Image
All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people… — Kenan Evren Copy Share Image
If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it… — Stephen Halbrook Copy Share Image
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country. — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. — Orville Redenbacher Copy Share Image
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights. — Jordi Cuixart Copy Share Image
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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