Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems. — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Once you're president, you can't go anywhere without causing trouble. President Obama shows up in China, he's chewing gum, they go crazy.… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on. Happily… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism].… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. — Adam Ferguson Copy Share Image
I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals. — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
“If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would… — Émilie Du Châtelet Copy Share Image
While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“If we understand “rights” to be legal protection against harm, then many animals already do have rights, and the idea of animal… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights. — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. — Joe Andrew Copy Share Image