Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we… — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable… — Al Capp Copy Share Image
When the civil rights are denying by the authorities, in a country.The people will be under the slavery , from the slavery… — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister,… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights. — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows. — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out… — John McCain Copy Share Image
We have seen the most well-funded gay and lesbian rights organizations valorize the US military in their work seeking inclusion in military… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
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