It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value -… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values… — Rosika Schwimmer Copy Share Image
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We all share the same goal to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, while fully… — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
