What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. — David Price Copy Share Image
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex. — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women. — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!" — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
“Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.” — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be… — George Washington 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
My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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