The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
I'm proud to stand up and defend against threats to our Second Amendment rights in Congress. — Marjorie Taylor Greene Copy Share Image
We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers. — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses. — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled… — George Mason Copy Share Image
If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish… — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I stand for humanity, no creeds or religion, I defend human rights and will continue to do till the day that I… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of… — Matthew Coon Come Copy Share Image
In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington 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
I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
“The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“It was nicer that way. knowing that something called rights existed. The right to health care, to good and to schooling for… — Manlio Argueta Copy Share Image
We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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