The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party,… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that… — Wendy O. Williams Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans, — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
If we broaden the audience for cricket, more people will be interested in all forms, then TV rights and sponsors and crowds… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We have to remember that the United States has certain principles, certain values that bind us all together, that make us all… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
It just seems so fundamental to me. I'm able to marry the person I wanted to marry. That's the fundamental human imperative.… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or… — Garland Waller Copy Share Image
Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Loads of my friends are gay, I don't see myself in any sense as being opposed to gay rights, but I did… — Lucinda Creighton Copy Share Image
It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages. — Hugo Grotius Copy Share Image
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Justice is not a flexible tool. Unless we all do our part to ensure that justice is applied equally to all human… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy. — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image