I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else. — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image
As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered. — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries.… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if,… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The Islamists started this war. They explained to us as clearly as General Giap and Ho Chi Minh explained to us why… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others. — Rene G Torres Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I'm in politics to defend the rights of Canadians - to secure a brighter future. — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image