The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We don't supply a hundred billion dollars worth of weapons to the war criminals in Saudi Arabia nor do we supply eight… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessible systems for registering, tracking and protecting… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
I think the health of our water is tied to a lot: the health of our communities, hence our economy, the health… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular… — Diane Watson Copy Share Image
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times.… — Frances Farenthold Copy Share Image
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“God created us all with his love, to be equally treated. No human being is superior over another.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Things like debates over which bathrooms trans people use; it is incredibly undignified to have to stage your Human Rights Campaign about… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I… — Rosa Parks 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
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress, — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
