Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Protest is the traditional way that Hong Kongers, who do not have full voting rights, express discontent. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned. — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
We must secure our borders and restore the rule of law, and more than anyone running, Ted Cruz has fought to make… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely valuable for us to be able to have a conversation in more than one dialect, speaking to more… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Right and responsibility go hand in hand. You can't give rights to those who are not responsible. If you want to let… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type… — Gabriel E. Gomez Copy Share Image
America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they… — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens,… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image