Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
Gay People can’t do this. Women shouldn’t be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you’re attacking my rights. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they're not really the establishment. I can't obviously speak for Senator Bernie Sanders or about Planned… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't somebody have the same legal rights as everybody else in our society? What is that about? I don't even understand… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights -… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!" — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s,… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
There is animal rights and animals rights organizations like PETA, then there's animal welfare, which is very different than animal rights. — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
People need to be able to read what their rights are, to be able to participate and hold their governments to account. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines. — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
