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I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights. — Jean Sasson

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

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. — Louise Slaughter

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense. — Gerrit Smith

Human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that. — Hayley Williams

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. — Israel Shahak

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. — Nicholas Kristof

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

Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs ... shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'? — Bill Hicks

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

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work. — Aziz Ansari

The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it. — Hod Lipson

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone

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

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered. — R. Lee Wrights

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics. — Rebecca MacKinnon

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights. — Gelila Bekele

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights. — Alexander Chee

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. — Hillary Clinton

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

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. — Luis Walter Alvarez

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. — James Russell Lowell

A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth! — Avijeet Das

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights. — Ziggy Marley

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

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

Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights. — Arthur C. Brooks

I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God. — Rick Perry

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

The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination. — Leta B.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights. — Judith Light

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize. — Sarah Moore Grimke

I'm passionate about gay rights, but I think we need admit that there are some gay wrongs as well. — Dov Davidoff

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began. — Erica Jong

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

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. — Alexis De Tocqueville

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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

The problem with being a gun rights supporter is that the left hates guns and the right hates rights. — Gene Hoffman

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

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

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. — Alfred Marshall

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. — Jim Oberweis

The Great Spirit finds all life, even that of an abomination, is sacred. — Craig R. Key

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. — Ayn Rand

You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right? — Milla Jovovich

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable. — Barbara Mikulski

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. — Ellen Goodman

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

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. — Ayn Rand

One thing I really love being a man about Islam is; I can have so many wives and that would be considered as my rights. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

The part of you that's like Gob is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred. — Dr. Willie Parker

If women die in childbed, that does no harm. It is what they were made for. — Martin Luther

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. — Tariq Ali

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

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

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. — Noam Chomsky

Always Remember ... Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. — W. Somerset Maugham

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop. — Macklemore

He amended the thought to say that men were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," thus — Christopher Hitchens

One of the fundamental rights of mankind should be that of wearing as many or as few clothes as one likes inside one's own home. — Sachin Kundalkar

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful. — John Lewis

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

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights. — Liu Xiaobo

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner

Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything. — Jacky Fleming

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. — Mahatma Gandhi

Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time. — Junius Williams

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. — Robert D. Kaplan

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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It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

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

It was not that low-income renters didn't know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them. — Matthew Desmond

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters. — Aberjhani

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

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women ... Human rights? They couldn't care less! — Isabel Allende

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

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority. — Malcolm X

Power within
A wiser woman kin
I cannot give her
The proper word
She is worth so much more
She is the one that should be adored — Maddy Kobar

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man. — Massad Ayoob

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions. — Penn Jillette

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy. — Akbar Ganji

I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves. — Jay Parini

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

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up — George MacDonald

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

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights. — Pope Francis

Vote. Even if they are all hopelessly inadequate, pick the least terrible one and vote. My mother fought hard to get you that vote. — Rowan Coleman

when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights. — Grace Metalious

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. — B.F. Skinner