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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.
The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights.
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.
The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on.
As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.
I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.
If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.
I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.
Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's.
Freedom to love and freedom to choose who you love are one's basic rights and we shouldn't be scared to exercise them.
I'm just one tiny speck on this earth and I am always mindful of the fact that other people have rights and interests.
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.
Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.
Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realise their full potential.
You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.
I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes.
The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.