All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility… — Leo Hindery Copy Share Image
You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing,… — William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell Copy Share Image
You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which… — John Linder Copy Share Image
Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image