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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.
I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.
The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.
... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.
[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.
If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
I'm passionate about gay rights, but I think we need admit that there are some gay wrongs as well.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.
If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.
We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.
Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.