The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms. — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society. — David Barton Copy Share Image
What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." [ Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress , 13 March 1962]” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
“Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“While Bigge was trying to turn back the clock, ex-convicts and their sons and daughters were demanding greater rights. Most important, they… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
In Greece there is a very particular situation because on one hand the colonels took away everyone's political rights, but at the… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for… — Jackie Huggins Copy Share Image
[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights.… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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