Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion. — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous… — William A. Clark Copy Share Image
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly...… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States. — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no… — William James Copy Share Image
You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works. — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America,… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
