I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Today humanity is blinded by greed and the human rights violations and human rights are also to — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won. — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States.… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining," he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. "The right to freedom… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago… — Sara Paretsky 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
For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have only… — Jackie Huggins Copy Share Image
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The Visitor Bill of Rights 1. Comfort 2. Orientation 3. Welcome/belonging 4. Enjoyment 5. Socializing 6. Respect 7. Communication 8. Learning 9. Choice and control 10. Challenge and confidence 11. Revitalization” — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily… — Maria Conchita Alonso Copy Share Image
The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
“We believe that the body hath its rights — to move in a reasonable ambit — to raise, to lower its limbs… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Let us bask in each other's rights, freedom is foul if it isn't shared.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments. — Francis Hutcheson Copy Share Image
I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman. — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
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