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Rights Quotes by Barack Obama

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Barack Obama defends workers’ right to bargain for better wages and conditions. He stresses that LGBT couples deserve the same constitutional protections as anyone else. He also affirms the importance of protecting free speech, even when the words are harsh.

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Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

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I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do…

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We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining…

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No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't…

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If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't…

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It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights…

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Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and…

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That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness…

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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to…

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So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge…

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The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us…

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I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms…

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Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and…

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We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile…

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I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think…

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What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two…

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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have…

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While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do.…

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I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been…

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I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I…

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When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men…

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You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly…

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Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of…

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We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after…

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No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights…

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I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as…

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Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the…

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I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will…

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Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every…

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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating…

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Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All…

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“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights…

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America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil…

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I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United…

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When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,…

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another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the…

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What we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages or working conditions... These so-called…

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I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned…

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Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied…

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The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we…

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us…