May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human." — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge. — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
I've been really consistent throughout the campaign and since I won that I want to prioritize victims rights and I want to… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi Copy Share Image
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
“I shall remind you that"rights" are a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context, that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its… — Ilan Pappe Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
“I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance… — John Neff Copy Share Image
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what… — Helene Deutsch Copy Share Image
The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Remember that you always have the right to be treated with respect, and to protest unfair treatment or criticism. It’s vital to… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Sam was helping animals long before he was Sam Simon. He lived what he believed; his thing was making the world better… — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
When a terrorist attack comes, you will not necessarily know who did it. What you can know is that certain kinds of… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick) — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
The right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel does not mean disregarding the rights of others in the land. — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right? — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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