There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The only time there's gonna be a transgender bathroom in the White House is during a gay rights ceremony. You know as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
“The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We believe that human rights always applies to the majority, who should have its rights protected. When people demonstrate and go to… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I haven't been a gay activist. I haven't protested for gay rights or none of that, but one thing I can say… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights. — Umar Copy Share Image
Asour counterterrorism approaches evolve,we cannot waiveronhuman rights andfree expression. Because ultimately,our steadfast commitment to thoserightsand freedomsare our most powerful counterterrorism tool of… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending… — Moshe Arens Copy Share Image
Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Men, specifically in the West, have no rights of passage, no way to know when they become a man. Everywhere else in… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but… — Kofi Annan 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 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 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 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
Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As long as gay people don't have their rights all across America, there's no reason for celebration. — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image