There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people,… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.” — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights. — Stephanie Schriock Copy Share Image
As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered. — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
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