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Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
I said those things about gay rights and abortion on opposite day. I cannot BELIEVE you don't have opposite day in North Carolina!
I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.
It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.
Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.
If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to.
If you're not willing to speak out for the rights of other people, then who do you expect to speak out for you when it's your turn?
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.
Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.
There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.
The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"
All of us have mothers, sisters, daughters at home and it is our responsibility to protect them and make them aware of their rights.
I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.
But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.
As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress.
I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.
There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.
The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians.