It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
…I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war.… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world.… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same… — Jim Gibbons Copy Share Image
'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There used to be a joke that women need a reason to have sex, while men only need a place. Does policy… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water,… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world.… — Kesha Copy Share Image
They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants… — Adam Bandt Copy Share Image
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second to liberty; third to property; together with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human… — Paul Starr Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe that America has a responsibility, and the privilege of helping defend freedom and promote the principles that make the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Those Russkies won’t put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My… — Mary Beth Whitehead Copy Share Image