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I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.
I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn't just a villain's charter.
This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms.
I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.
To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.
Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.
We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
On a serious note, I stand by Obama on marriage equality! I believe ALL families deserve the same rights
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.
I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.
Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.
But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.
I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.
It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.
The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.