The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. — David Brin Copy Share Image
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt. — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Defend yourselves! If people don't defend their rights, they lose them. — Max Mosley Copy Share Image
When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights. — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
…we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
The administration [ of Barack Obama ]says I'm wrong, that there's nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Medicaid is one of the rare times where Democratic governors are saying, "Hey, states' rights." We don't want the federal government coming… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the]… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence… — Helen Chenoweth-Hage Copy Share Image
And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself! — Macklemore Copy Share Image
People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Animals have no safety net in society, no voices of their own, and very few rights under the law. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
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