Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice. — Janeane Garofalo 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
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights. — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
We are not exercising our democratic rights properly. We need to stop looking for solutions in others. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
I am in the valley of prayer on the issue of gay marriage, and I will err on the side of inclusiveness… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
If you follow Donald Trump's logic, say that he couldn't decide any civil rights cases because he would be biased.I mean, we… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism].… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what gives me hope. After the struggle for marriage equality, the LGBTQ community has built some very powerful organizations;… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
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