No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For any state, I'm not going to recognize its rights to be a state with a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison 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
After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could… — Elizabeth Evatt Copy Share Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the… — Dean Rusk Copy Share Image
If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights,… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government. — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image