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The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies. — Jacques Maritain

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken. — Betty Ford

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

If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens. — Marco Rubio

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens. — Dick Durbin

Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. — David Chiles

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights. — Louis Bacon

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. — Sandra Day O'Connor

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties. — Cecily McMillan

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen. — Dean Rusk

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens. — Al Franken

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all. — Roseanne Barr

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.
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The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A number of laws that are said to protect citizens harkens back to "Jim Crow" era. — J.C. Phillips

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights. — Thomas Jefferson

The States in which the citizens have enjoyed their rights longest are those in which they make the best use of them. — Alexis De Tocqueville

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended. — Harry Belafonte

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. — Mitt Romney

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen. — John Marshall

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management. — Thomas Jefferson

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest. — Mahatma Gandhi

When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult, — James Meredith

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. — Alexander Hamilton

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights. — John Ashcroft

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. — Vladimir Lenin

FBI creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around. — Edward Snowden

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

The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble. — Mark Twain

On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate. — Basmah Bint Saud

A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours — Andrei Sakharov

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens. — Rush Limbaugh

American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them. — Bernard B. Kerik

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. — Franz Grillparzer

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. — Rebecca MacKinnon

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

If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa. — Mo Ibrahim