Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same… — Jim Gibbons Copy Share Image
I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Right and responsibility go hand in hand. You can't give rights to those who are not responsible. If you want to let… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex,… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that… — Gelila Bekele Copy Share Image
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one,… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so… — Jello Biafra 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