It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility? — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
In Greece there is a very particular situation because on one hand the colonels took away everyone's political rights, but at the… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Bush administration and its 'we'll liberate you by invading your countries' doctrine is thankfully behind us. It is up to us… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights. — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term,… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country. — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As I got more into gay rights, I got more into equal pay, and you just see that it's all connected. You… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
The NRA is interested in protecting the civil rights of Americans, not protecting the ability of terrorists to get guns. — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering,… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I am firmly committed to equality for everybody, because your rights are my rights regardless of who you are. — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I kept asking what my role was in the Sena. I was told that I was responsible for Nashik, but I really… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
