Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.
Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.
When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.
Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.
I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.
Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.
I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.
In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.
The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.
There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.
our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.
Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.
Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.