It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights... — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I want to be able to get my point across. I respect people expressing their freedoms and their liberties and their rights,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
Nowadays everybody's a feminist - male, female, trans. Gender's so passé they don't even care anymore. They know what equal rights are,… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties. — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history,… — Haj Amin al-Husseini Copy Share Image
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Every book warns us at the beginning: All Rights Reserved. But I don’t believe it. Every right will not be reserved. Our… — Gregory Scott Katsoulis Copy Share Image
I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
We should assert our rights under the EEA Treaty to remain a member after Brexit and apply to join EFTA as an… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about. — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. — George Jellinek Copy Share Image
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. — David Harris Copy Share Image
“Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.” — Samuel R. Young Jr Copy Share Image
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing… — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
