There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other… — Judith Light Copy Share Image
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There… — Shakira Copy Share Image
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy. — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us… — Ellen Malcolm Copy Share Image
The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity,… — Eliza R. Snow Copy Share Image
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example.… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the… — John Hume Copy Share Image
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.” — Lynn Hunt Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm going to actively fight for players' rights. Not while I'm in college. I'm always going to keep a consistent track record… — Josh Rosen Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
“The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy. — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
![“Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying…” quote by Lizz Winstead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b40/lizz-winstead-11138_abortion_legislators-could-easily-be-out-voted-if_1026631.png)
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