Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but… — Alessandro Manzoni Copy Share Image
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I think there should be some way to find some kind of reasonable accommodation that allows the state to continue to say,… — Rona Ambrose Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
[T]rue socialism must be voluntary - not coerced. Even in the most complete system of society we can conceive the individual must… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
We need to invade Michigan and rebuild the state from the ground up. We will be greeted as liberators, we have clear… — John Cole Copy Share Image
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Everyone should have equal opportunities and equal rights, but you can't even have an opinion without somebody going off on you. That's… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights. — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
You have to take your hat off to the homosexual and gay community cause right now they're as strong as black people… — Tyrese Gibson Copy Share Image
Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities. — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We as a nation have a responsibility to stand up for the human rights of all people, regardless of race, religion, or… — George Santos Copy Share Image
I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws. — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle…goa ts are used for sacrificial… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
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