“Only by vigilance toward everyone's rights do we protect anyone's rights.” — Leonard Pitts Jr Copy Share Image
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. — Pasquier Quesnel Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy. — Dorothy Kilgallen Copy Share Image
It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We need to curtail the role of the European Court of Human Rights in the U.K. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
“If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.” — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
For any state, I'm not going to recognize its rights to be a state with a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
It's not about infringing upon the rights of people to own guns as gun enthusiasts or hunters, but what it is, is… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
When ISIS last year called for the destruction of the Yazidi people, President Obama said that would constitute genocide and he ordered… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash… — Reginald Hudlin Copy Share Image
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness. We claim them from a higher source. from the King of… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot. — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Always reserve the rights to change your mind or opinion, after all we are only human! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened. — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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