Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power… — Roger Pilon Copy Share Image
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that. — Peter Krause Copy Share Image
From my admittedly cranky perspective, Bush/Cheney are lousy on the Bill of Rights, Clinton/Gore were lousy on the Bill of Rights, and… — Matt Welch Copy Share Image
America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I… — R. Lee Wrights Copy Share Image
The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act. — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society. — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
What I love about what I do is expanding people's minds on the topics of gender expression, gay rights, and most of… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
