I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live. — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The decisions we make about the Internet don't affect just the Internet – they are answers to basic questions about the relationship… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution…… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
The last time I checked, the only difference between my gay friends and I is who we choose to love. I'm not… — Pink Copy Share Image
Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals'… — Jed Babbin Copy Share Image
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that… — Gelila Bekele Copy Share Image
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
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