Abandoned Quote by Charles Sumner

In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to…

— Mark Udall

It takes no compromise to give people their rights

— Harvey Milk

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our reform policies,…

— Sameh Shoukry

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

— Kim Reynolds

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping…

— Ronald Reagan

Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity…

— Antonio Guterres

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

— Larry Wall

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is…

— John C. Calhoun

Compromise is such an integral part of being a human being. You're compromising in every decision you make.

— Rick Remender

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their…

— Philip K. Howard

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed…

— Susan B. Anthony