Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. — Henry Brooke Copy Share Image
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many… — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live. — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals'… — Jed Babbin Copy Share Image
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
We are always told that with women's rights and opportunities for women there's been constant progress, and it isn't true. It works… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
