Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the… — Cornel West 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
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political… — Lucy Burns Copy Share Image
As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
There is animal rights and animals rights organizations like PETA, then there's animal welfare, which is very different than animal rights. — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
It's time to roll back superfluous governmental regulations and limit government to its sole task: safeguarding the rights of its citizens. — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for… — Leo Tolstoy 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
Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of… — Sharon Anthony Bower Copy Share Image
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing. — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
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