In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our… — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Copy Share Image
In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech… — Chris Coons Copy Share Image
In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Life is a kind of journey where no matter how long u travel.. u wud nvr be able to come back following… — Shobhit Tiwari Copy Share Image
I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Well, I think we ought to definitely look at it and debate it. I think there are a lot of people who… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I don't deny that religion is very healthful to a lot of people. And as long as they don't try to convert… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The Islamists started this war. They explained to us as clearly as General Giap and Ho Chi Minh explained to us why… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and… — Gijs de Vries 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
It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender,… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit. — Mark Russinovich Copy Share Image
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right. — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called 'same-sex marriage' and 'transgender' nonsense trampling the rights of Christians. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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![“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in…” quote by Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a5d/zygmunt-bauman-1861_differences_our-vulnerability-to-ressentiment-is-una_789126.jpg)
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