Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
I requested people to strengthen my hands with a view to ensuring justice for Tamil Nadu and its due rights. — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We must ensure strong, fair and robust workplace rights remain in our country's DNA. — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it… — Stephen Halbrook Copy Share Image
We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace,… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging… They're like those people who define themselves through their role as… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
Democracy is a precious thing and the rights of parliament are a precious thing. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with… — Charles Fessenden Morse Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
On a serious note, I stand by Obama on marriage equality! I believe ALL families deserve the same rights — Connor Barwin Copy Share Image
I hope to continue to be an activist for kids and teenagers and especially girls who are living with HIV/AIDS, because all… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides. — Bob Buckhorn Copy Share Image
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image