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The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of… — William Hague Copy Share Image
When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
One day we'll have a system that includes the rights of the people to make money and keep it, rather than a… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Wherever people defend the rights of the individual, I stand with them above all, over and beyond any wishes relating to how… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The Saudi, Arabian ruling class, for example, have rights because they are performing a service for Western power, ensuring that oil profits… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Contrary to the myth that the U.K. respects decisions of the Strasbourg court but many other adherent states do not, the convention… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
“That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well-regulated militia composed of the Body of the… — Mark Goodwin Copy Share Image
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