I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children... — Olara Otunnu Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats have no business strong-arming private citizens over their property rights. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Our administration is committed to protecting individuals' constitutional rights and ensuring Virginians are safe. — Glenn Youngkin Copy Share Image
Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
LGBTQ Americans deserve a president who will always stand with them and protect their civil rights - without hesitation. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers… — Gisela Stuart Copy Share Image
Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“A great deal of various cultural elements naturally grew from a real need of responding to [mostly] human psychology and biology, with… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image