Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your rights. If you don't like an agreement or you're not comfortable with it, don't… — Jon Fitch Copy Share Image
Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Freedom to love and freedom to choose who you love are one's basic rights and we shouldn't be scared to exercise them. — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So,… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women — Sima Samar Copy Share Image
I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or… — Scott Fujita Copy Share Image
We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging… They're like those people who define themselves through their role as… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'? — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I think the health of our water is tied to a lot: the health of our communities, hence our economy, the health… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought,… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights. — Jean O'Leary Copy Share Image
“One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
“I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We need to end qualified immunity at the federal level, where police can violate a person's civil rights with impunity, which we've… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
