I am firmly committed to equality for everybody, because your rights are my rights regardless of who you are. — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them. — Bernard Kerik Copy Share Image
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe,… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its… — Ilan Pappe Copy Share Image
One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen,… — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
In a matrilineal society, a woman has basic rights that no one has to grant her but you can't take it away… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation. — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit… — Anonymous 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
Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they… — Peter Munk Copy Share Image
I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda… — Lemn Sissay Copy Share Image
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice,… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights… — Lee Myung-bak Copy Share Image
Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and… — John Yarmuth 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