The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to… — Rachel Shelley Copy Share Image
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights. — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible. — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous,… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial. — Jean O'Leary Copy Share Image
I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the… — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of… — Sharon Anthony Bower Copy Share Image
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I really believe in a globalist agenda, but globalization isn't just allowing companies to trade freely all over the world. It's about… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Fundamental is the need for governments to protect the space for citizens to claim their rights, organize, and express themselves. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
