When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't… — Mehcad Brooks Copy Share Image
I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we're all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to… — Octavia St. Laurent Copy Share Image
The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement. — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
There's a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights - and that includes the unborn. As… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students.… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women… — Kaz Cooke Copy Share Image
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the… — Martin Delany Copy Share Image
Rights are hard to get right. Sometimes they are presented by the Left as an inevitable march of progress towards ultimate liberation.… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
One really basic thing is to establish women's property and inheritance rights, so women can be their own agents within society. — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.” — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Here's the problem, we need folks like John Lewis and others who, I think, have been champions of voter rights, to actually… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority. — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image