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
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
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
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who helps the terrorists will be harmed. If it is necessary we will destroy their houses. We will deprive them of… — Yoav Gallant Copy Share Image
I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“You have a right to have a godly anger to bring about change, godliness and justice in the society.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway? — John Waters Copy Share Image
They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
“I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.” — Alvin A. Bullock Copy Share Image
Women should have the same rights and respect and paychecks and everything, you know, they're human beings. — Bianca Balti Copy Share Image
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
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