Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness. — Joel Madden Copy Share Image
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages. — Hugo Grotius Copy Share Image
I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind. — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.” — Ron Pearce Copy Share Image
The record of human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party is as horrific as it is long. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people. — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda… — Lemn Sissay Copy Share Image
I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country,… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose. — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from… — Alexander Beresford Hope Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
I think it is a must for young people and generations yet to come, to understand, to feel, to touch, to almost… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court… — Wolfe Tone Copy Share Image
Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are,… — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.” — Carl-John X. Veraja Copy Share Image
The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms. — Stjepan Mesic Copy Share Image
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