The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
We have not the least right to require others to treat us any better than we treat them. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected. — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support'… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“Two wrongs' create an additional problem. 'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse. 'Two rights' create a solution.” — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights. — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
God says in the bible that we should love our neighbor and he created us all as equals. I know in my… — Heidi Montag Copy Share Image
Social justice is group psychology, it's group rights, it's collectivisim, and it's a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty… — Wiley Blount Rutledge Copy Share Image
Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria. What about my rights? Rachel, just because it offends you… — Marie Sexton Copy Share Image
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights. — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth. — Maria Ressa Copy Share Image
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“One of the most cherished of all rights is the right to be left alone.” — Supreme Court Justice Brandeis Copy Share Image
“The rights of others often begins with the fight for justice of one.” — Judith K. Witherow Copy Share Image
Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
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