In East China Sea and South China Sea, the Japan and the United States will closely cooperate on responding to China-related issue,… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Among individuals, as among nations, peace is the respect of others' rights. (Orig: Entre los individuos como entre las naciones, el respeto… — Benito Juarez Copy Share Image
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was… — Arthur Mitchell Copy Share Image
Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal… — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
We have seen the most well-funded gay and lesbian rights organizations valorize the US military in their work seeking inclusion in military… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue,… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial,… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions. — Richard Cordray Copy Share Image
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
“...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States.… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image