By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
“Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!” — Joseph P. Sekula Copy Share Image
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world. — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of "masculine" and "feminine" are going very fast… — Kim Longinotto Copy Share Image
People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts.… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights? — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The Congress and its kin parties such as the BJP are up to grab the rights of Dalits. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council. — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image