Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the… — Marvin Simkin Copy Share Image
The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown"… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150… — John Shelton Reed 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
And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no… — Frederick Douglass 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
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Given the National Organization for Women's membership and proclivities, it's no wonder that people now view the NOW gang as being obsessed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support'… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin 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
By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for… — James Payn Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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