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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].
To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.
From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.
I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.
[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.
I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.
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.
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.
Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?
I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.
Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.
The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.