I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country,… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose. — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda… — Lemn Sissay Copy Share Image
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows. — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Until the U.N. can defend objective human rights, not subjective ideological bias, it is a scourge to the values it claims to… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
The question arose, how would the communities manage this land on their own. That's why the Communal Land Rights Bill then borrows… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Voting is our right, but it is also our responsibility because if we don't take the next step and elect leaders who… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I somewhat resist the whole gay rights-vampire rights metaphor because it is fraught with problems. I don't want to be seen as… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“The conservative ideology sees LGBT rights as an affront to the traditional way of life, for some reason. We are attacked as… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
While the President [Barack Obama] did a good thing when he said he personally supported equal marriage, he then quickly backed away… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen.… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position. — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the… — Julie Bishop Copy Share Image
The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians? — Bill Nelson Copy Share Image
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society. — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image