The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that. — Peter Krause Copy Share Image
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights. — Jordi Cuixart Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals'… — Jed Babbin Copy Share Image
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“The conservative ideology sees LGBT rights as an affront to the traditional way of life, for some reason. We are attacked as… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
“I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights. — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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