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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.
[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.
In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.
Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.
During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.
Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?
If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.
It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.
The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.