One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“The thought of someone believing you deserve fewer rights because of who you are is depressing. But then you realize that, by… — Amber Ruffin Copy Share Image
Telugu-Tamil producer Thyagarajan has bought the South Indian language rights for two Hindi hit films, Vikas Behl's 'Queen' and Neeraj Pandey's 'Special… — Ravi Teja Copy Share Image
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We believe in traditional values because without them, without the belief in an all-powerful God, then the very founding of our country… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and… — Swami Vivekananda 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
“We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Justice is not a flexible tool. Unless we all do our part to ensure that justice is applied equally to all human… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
A bear and a deer are both wild animals. We allow the deer to roam in our backyard but we do not… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
