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Our rights come from nature and God, not government. — Paul Ryan

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home. — Jimmy Carter

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother. — Debasish Mridha

Our rights come from God, not government. — Cheryl K. Chumley

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. — Hu Jintao

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises. — Bill Keller

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. — Jesse Ventura

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse. — Lynn Nottage

Estragon: we lost our rights?
vladimir: we got rid of them. — Samuel Beckett

Our duties - are the rights of others over us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties. — Dick Durbin

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. — Sandra Lee

THE SADNESS IN OUR HEARTS SEEMS ENDLESS — Widad Akreyi

I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing. — Allan Dare Pearce

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. — Henry Brooke

We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect. — Mo Willems

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. — William Wells Brown

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep — John Dickinson

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. — Mike Quigley

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

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. — Charles Sumner

UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS ... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS — Widad Akreyi

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country — John F. Kennedy

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights. — George Washington

They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can't deserve our rights." Others — John Howard Griffin

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected. — Benjamin Todd Jealous

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag. — John Ashcroft

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world. — Dmitry Medvedev

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets. — Harvey Milk

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights. — Ron Paul

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights. — Bell Hooks

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us ... — Rai Aren

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. — Jimmy Carter

We need to bless instead of condemning, we need to learn to stand for the truth of God and for our rights — Sunday Adelaja

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. — Ron Pearce

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. — Mary Frances Berry

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence. — Dennis Kucinich

Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator. — Fulton J. Sheen

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. — Thomas Jefferson

Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. — Michael Ignatieff

We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign. — Ted Cruz

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. — Bell Hooks

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story. — Neil Young

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations. — Dennis Prager

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes. — Gary L. Francione

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. — Sonia Sotomayor

Our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from. — Newt Gingrich

The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time. — Desmond Tutu

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights. — Walter E. Williams

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. — Alexander Rodchenko

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. — Sharon Anthony Bower

Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices. — Vahid Asghari

But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain? — Clare Boothe Luce

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ... — Thomas Jefferson

We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact. — Melanie Joy

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure. — Faye Wattleton

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights. — Eric Schneiderman

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights. — Jacob Schiff

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. — Morgan Freeman

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power. — Ted Cruz

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? — Glenn Beck

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him. — Joni Eareckson Tada

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands. — Nelson Mandela

I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights. — Ted Cruz

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. — Thomas Jefferson

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. — Lyndon B. Johnson

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties. — James Monroe

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties. — Frank Lautenberg

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution. — Chen Shui-bian

I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for. — Luke Scott

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! — John Muir

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible. — Ann Douglas

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long ... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls. — Lewis B. Smedes

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society. — Christina Baldwin

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history. — Tom Cardamone

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect. — Faye Wattleton

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control. — Millard Fillmore

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others. — Dave Champion

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can. — Thomas Jefferson

Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships? — Nick Hornby

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. — David Harvey

The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period. — Ted Nugent

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. — Marco Rubio

We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way. — Ron Paul

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. — William Bennett

We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us. — Walter Scott

Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we've engaged in 'right' living, verses believing that living is a 'right. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad. — A.E. Samaan

There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen. — Theresa May

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal. — Harry S. Truman

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. — Major Owens

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. — Marc Bekoff

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live? — Jennifer Ryan

We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God — George W. Bush