... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that we can protect our people without undermining our constitutional rights and I worry very, very much about the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty."… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We may think we’ve given cats and dogs all sorts of rights, he says, but we can still buy, sell, and declaw… — David Grimm Copy Share Image
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Love for others and respect for their rights and their human dignity, irrespective of who or what they are, no matter what… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and… — Lysander Spooner 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
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exercise of his faculties or… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some… — Susan Faludi 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
As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates,… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
In 1948, northern liberals inserted a civil rights plank into the national Democratic platform, prompting a walkout of Southern delegations - which… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“Thus individuals and communities of all faiths, or of none, enjoy two basic rights. One is the right to an autonomous social… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
We don't supply a hundred billion dollars worth of weapons to the war criminals in Saudi Arabia nor do we supply eight… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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