In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The modern labor movement that began around the mid-19th century has given us many of the basic working rights that we now… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty. — Elizabeth Price Foley Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that. I really wasn't… — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
I had a couple of experiences as a kid with animals where I hurt them, kind of unintentionally, and when I saw… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My God loves everybody, and if yours doesn't, that's your prerogative, but don't tell me how to live my life and don't… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all… — Hun Sen Copy Share Image
It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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