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
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
If you were a victim and you are fighting for their rights , then you are great. But if you were not… — Ahmed Shahyn Copy Share Image
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act. — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
I'm going to stand up for what [Donald Trump] says and does that is threatening to Americans, to the lives of Americans,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I am not necessarily my clients. I will seek to defend them, to vindicate their rights but that doesn't mean that I… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights… — David Boaz Copy Share Image