According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
I'm deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and… — Christine Gregoire 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
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
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
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
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
Our reasons for criminalising squatting are crystal clear - we want to protect the rights of regular hard-working homeowners against the damage… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among… — Lyman Trumbull Copy Share Image
But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too.… — Yousef Saanei Copy Share Image
Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans,… — Chad Griffin Copy Share Image
We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great… — John Stark 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 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
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
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings… — Nicholas D. Kristof 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
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
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
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
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people. — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of… — Ann Robinson Copy Share Image
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation,… — Nelson Mandela 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