All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights...… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering,… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
My view is that we have the Second Amendment rights to bear arms, and in this country my view is that we… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please.” — steven redhead Copy Share Image
I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. — George Jellinek Copy Share Image
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do.… — Alicia Sacramone Copy Share Image