Best Rights Sayings
3557 Rights quotes by 1922 unique authors
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I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.
— Sophia Bush
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I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay;' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that…
— Sophia Bush
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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
— Smedley Butler
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The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage…
— Herman Cain
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The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the…
— John C. Calhoun
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Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights…
— David Cameron
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I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The…
— Tony Campolo
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I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage,…
— Tony Campolo
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson…
— Jack Canfield
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is…
— Stokely Carmichael
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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
— Stokely Carmichael
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
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So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not…
— Stokely Carmichael
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If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
— John le Carre
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When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're…
— Margaret Cho
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
— Jimmy Carter
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
— Jimmy Carter
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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
— Jimmy Carter
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the…
— Jimmy Carter
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I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected.…
— Jimmy Carter
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I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able…
— Jimmy Carter
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary…
— Michael N. Castle
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