I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Given the National Organization for Women's membership and proclivities, it's no wonder that people now view the NOW gang as being obsessed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Never say never. When love happens, it just happens. The industry is full of nice people, and there are no rights and… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic… — Goapele Copy Share Image
It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom.… — Jack Herer Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability… — Moby Copy Share Image
“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected,… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
“I understood the connexion between his idea, and my idea that no one had any rights over me, that there wasn’t anyone… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.” — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
I have long maintained that voting rights is more important than preserving any Senate procedural rule. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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