The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. — Erwin Griswold Copy Share Image
People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love. — Sasha Cohen Copy Share Image
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books. — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the… — Hun Sen Copy Share Image
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
There are people who have legitimate concerns about false accusations and the impact that can have on a young person's life when… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power… — Roger Pilon Copy Share Image
We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
“If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image