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
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. — Grimes Copy Share Image
If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.” — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
To ask for 'our rights' is our right... the state may or may not accede to our demands... but our right to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies. — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids.… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun.… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights. — Alan Colmes 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
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere. — Tamzin Merchant Copy Share Image
I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image