Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
It's a good bet that if Jesse Jackson calls something a 'civil rights issue,' it's not. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he… — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals… — Bruce Friedrich 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
Make no mistake: one is not a better Quebecer because one speaks French. One is not less of a Quebecer because one… — Pierre Moreau Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way. — Kelly Preston Copy Share Image
A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because… — Daniel Kemmis Copy Share Image
America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. Therefore join the movement as individuals against anti-Semitism, join the… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I think that we ought to definitely look at it and debate it. I think there are a lot of people… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We have seen the most well-funded gay and lesbian rights organizations valorize the US military in their work seeking inclusion in military… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed… — Oliver Wolcott Copy Share Image
To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
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