I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. — Jim Oberweis Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain… — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point… — Jim Jordan Copy Share Image
If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect. — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
