There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I said those things about gay rights and abortion on opposite day. I cannot BELIEVE you don't have opposite day in North… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries;… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more… — Gary Potter Copy Share Image
The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I have led amendments to protect and grow our domestic manufacturing and to establish a parents' bill of rights to make sure… — John E. James Copy Share Image
“The western world is a dishonest society of non-disclosure agreements, cash for silence, and the illegal removal of civil rights from those… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'! — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“I revere the Bill of Rights, but at the same time I believe that anyone who's using three or more of them… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
[John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image