All rights, however noble, impose duties on others, even if in many cases we wholeheartedly agree that the benefits outweigh the costs.… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the… — Samuel Ray Cummings Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on… — Portia Simpson-Miller Copy Share Image
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The FBI holds sacred the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms. — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
The respect for the rights of minorities that China's Tibetan and Uighur activists champion would prevent instability that could spill across China's… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There are three billion women in the world who have vaginas. I don't think we can stop fighting for our sexual liberation,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
Our kids are our future. They deserve every possible opportunity to start their day with enthusiasm, encouragement and food in their stomachs.… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It… — Al Gini Copy Share Image
I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights… — Jim Costa 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
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights. — John Tyler Copy Share Image
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing: If I started that gay rights group, I must be gay. So if i start an… — James Howe Copy Share Image
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it! — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism… — Yelena Bonner Copy Share Image
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations. — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex. — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
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