Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid. — Mary Jane Patterson Copy Share Image
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides.… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
If you follow Donald Trump's logic, say that he couldn't decide any civil rights cases because he would be biased.I mean, we… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection,… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I'm really into the rights of immigrants, the rights of the working poor. I'm one of those little activist types. I probably… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small,… — Kliment Voroshilov Copy Share Image
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
“…the very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
I requested people to strengthen my hands with a view to ensuring justice for Tamil Nadu and its due rights. — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky Copy Share Image
Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can… — Willa Gibbs Copy Share Image
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18. — Guler Sabanci Copy Share Image
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political… — Lucy Burns Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person,… — Maria Julia Hernandez Copy Share Image
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