The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men's rights, and a guardian of them-a… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women — Sima Samar Copy Share Image
Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
You took something precious from me, do not get me wrong if my turn to take your rights. — Mohamad Idrus Copy Share Image
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches.… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people. — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights as they apply to… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution;… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image