In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech… — Chris Coons Copy Share Image
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. — Robert C. Maynard Copy Share Image
“My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.” — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them. — Bernard Kerik Copy Share Image
The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our… — Juan Guerrero Burciaga Copy Share Image
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability… — Moby Copy Share Image
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concept of father's rights should be thrown out the door. It should be called children's rights and parent's responsibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing. — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Once you're on scout team, you're going against people you don't really get to go against, so you want to prove a… — Patrick Chung Copy Share Image
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of… — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
