A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages. — Hugo Grotius Copy Share Image
Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind. — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The record of human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party is as horrific as it is long. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
“The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.” — Ron Pearce Copy Share Image
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you. — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.” — Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso Copy Share Image
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. — Henry Brooke Copy Share Image
If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the… — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“If you are between an ignorant friend and a wise enemy, take refuge to your wise enemy because he will provide you… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who… — Anna Quindlen 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
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are those who argue that the concept of human rights is not applicable to all cultures. We in the National League… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The drafting of a legally binding instrument concerning the human rights impacts of the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other business… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
People who won't sign the taxpayer protection pledge, people who won't sign the property-rights protection pledge, people who won't sign the state-sovereignty… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
“A BILL OF ASSERTIVE RIGHTS I: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the… — Manuel J. Smith Copy Share Image
I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Just five days now before Donald Trump becomes president of the United States after the most intense week yet of this transition.It… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
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