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I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. — Boyd Rice

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody
knows. People will stand much more from him. — Albert Camus

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

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. — Victor Hugo

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. — Dan Savage

People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others. — Ron Paul

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously. — Alfie Kohn

To all those who struggle for human rights for LGTB people — Eli Easton

Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't. — Ricky Gervais

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. — James Bovard

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights. — Stuart Briscoe

I'm kind of jealous of people who haven't met you. If ignorance ever goes up to $5 a barrel, I want drilling rights to your head. — Gena Showalter

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism. — Richard Ford

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case. — John Gierach

A voteless people is a hopeless people. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. — Edmund Burke

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights. — Jean O'Leary

There's a special place in hell for people who mistreat animals. — Tara Sue Me

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them. — Eleanor Smeal

Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people. — Helen Keller

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

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows. — Zoe Lofgren

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. — Richard Gere

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that. — Thomas Perez

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love. — Hillary Clinton

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. — Alphonso Jackson

We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. — Allan Dare Pearce

People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing. — George Carlin

A feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can. — Lauren Groff

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people. — Laurie Anderson

Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights. — Doris Lessing

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb. — Noam Chomsky

If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs. — Adriano Bulla

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard

If you forgive people enough, you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not - squatter's rights of the heart — James Hilton

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human." — Suzanne La Follette

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house? — Ljupka Cvetanova

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. — Abraham Lincoln

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights. — Nicholas D. Kristof

It makes no sense to talk about people's rights without also talking about responsibilities. The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. — Leonard Peltier

When married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them. — Patricia Wentworth

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters. — Anita Bryant

Church doctrine has no place in secular law. You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria. — Marie Sexton

The Constitution is a radical document ... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights. — William J. Clinton

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives. — J.K. Rowling

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most. — DaShanne Stokes

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake
you know, to send the right message to kids. — Bill Maher

It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else. — Jon Stewart

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. — Ronald Reagan

If you're not willing to speak out for the rights of other people, then who do you expect to speak out for you when it's your turn? — Chris Kluwe

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights. — Jimmy Carter

People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights. — Condoleezza Rice

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do. — Trevor Phillips

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. — Gloria Steinem

My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. — Hillary Clinton

People will never get in touch with democracy. It's always surrounded by bodyguards. — Ljupka Cvetanova

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away. — Charles Schumer

Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights. — M.F. Moonzajer

But then isn't that what marriage is, two people fighting for land rights to the same six inches? — Noah Hawley

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

If justice fails in the courtroom, it will not prevail in society.
A broken Justice System does not protect the rights of all people. — Ellen J. Barrier

When people believe that the local government and economy serve their needs. There is little desire to protest. — Auliq Ice

Respecting other people's rights is peace. — Dolores Huerta

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. — Marquis De Lafayette

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. — Carl Van Vechten

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. — Nelson Mandela

People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love. — Sasha Cohen

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. — Chief Joseph

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. — Ricky Martin

People must not vote thinking the evil will lose, but for valuing their existence — M.F. Moonzajer

By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it. — Evangeline Lilly

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them — James Howe

A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government; — Anonymous

We wanted black power to be all things to all people. — Cleveland Sellers

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

It is unusual," said Cristina, "for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more. — Cassandra Clare

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women. — Karen DeCrow

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that. — Bernie Sanders

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. — Roger Nash Baldwin

I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are. — Josh Hutcherson

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them — Edgar Schein

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with. — Jack Kemp

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights. — Laura Bush

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does. — Michael Gerson

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic. — Deborah Kara Unger

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton

I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front. — David Lucero

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. — Thomas Jefferson

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. — Indira Gandhi

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people. — Evan Bayh