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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to… — Thomas Jefferson
We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is… — Bob Menendez
As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement that still motivates… — Steven Horsford
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the… — Joichi Ito
We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights -… — Terence McKenna
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one… — Mikhail Bakunin
What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what… — Mary McLeod Bethune
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf… — John Brown
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. — Pearl S. Buck
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to… — Roger Casement
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men. — Frederick Douglass
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality,… — Susan Faludi
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. — Dick Gregory
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes. — Lillian Hellman
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as… — Chief Joseph
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities. — John F. Kennedy
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old… — Suzanne La Follette
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you… — Abraham Lincoln
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to… — Malcolm X
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. — Jose Marti
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was… — Emmeline Pankhurst
The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for… — Qiu Jin
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and… — A. Philip Randolph

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