China's rapid inroads into Africa are made possible by a combination of Chinese money and a willingness by Beijing to deal with… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Punjab believes that every province has equal rights, and when all provinces will make progress, Pakistan will make progress. — Shehbaz Sharif Copy Share Image
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal… — Annie Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot. — Todd Young Copy Share Image
Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender,… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. — Jim Oberweis Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain… — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point… — Jim Jordan Copy Share Image
If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect. — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image