True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.” — Warren Gamaliel Harding Copy Share Image
All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero. — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of… — Marco Rubio 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
ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship. apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken. millennium falcon.… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits,… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
There's been a systematic propagandizing of American citizens for 30 years to make us forget what America is supposed to be and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Joining a union makes it more powerful and in turn strengthens the rights of all workers. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
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