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States Rights died at Appomattox. -- Salmon P. Chase
Rights are subordinate to responsibilities. -- Len Smith
No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights -- Joe Biden
Rights come from God and only from God. -- Alan Keyes
Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement. -- Danny Glover
Rights are in the power of the people. -- Ken Starr
The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact. -- Robert H. Jackson
Bill of Rights was Madison, I'm going with Madison. -- Tim Kaine
Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights. -- Toba Beta
Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local. -- Murray Rothbard
Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin. -- G. Edward Griffin
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -- Ronald Reagan
The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock." -- William Rehnquist
Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard. -- Harvey Milk
This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement -- Hamid Dabashi
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. -- Rand Paul
Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. -- Jose Marti
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights. -- Ted Cruz
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights. -- Adrian Cronauer
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. -- Bobby Scott
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. -- Nelson Mandela
We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment. -- Bernie Sanders
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other. -- George Washington
The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights. -- John C. Dvorak
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. -- Charles Edward Merriam
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. -- Bill Maher
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period. -- Ted Nugent
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. -- Anthony Kennedy
Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery. -- Philip Wollen
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. -- Antonin Scalia
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. -- Jimmy Carter
The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans. -- William J. Brennan
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. -- Ronald Reagan
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. -- Earl Warren
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant. -- Anthony Trollope
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights. -- Jerry Garcia
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books. -- Bradley A. Smith
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. -- Victor Hugo
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Putting the World to Rights -- Margaret Thatcher
Gay rights are human rights. -- Hillary Clinton
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. -- Chief Joseph
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. -- Abraham Lincoln
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. -- Pope Francis
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. -- Jimmy Carter
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. -- Thomas Jefferson
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. -- Carl Schurz
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. -- William J. Brennan
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. -- Liu Xiaobo
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole. -- Kofi Annan
The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of. -- Albert Gallatin
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay;' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do; I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean. -- Sophia Bush
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear. -- Eve Curie
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. -- Will Rogers
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. -- Wynton Marsalis
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. -- Joichi Ito
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. -- Bob Marley
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. -- Rand Paul
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. -- Marquis de Lafayette
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. -- Thomas Jefferson
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. -- Alice Paul
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. -- Marquis de Lafayette
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. -- B. R. Ambedkar
The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union. -- John C. Calhoun
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. -- Evo Morales
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated. -- Malala Yousafzai
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). -- Ayn Rand
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. -- Annie Lennox
People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace. -- Malala Yousafzai
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty. -- Brandi Carlile
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' -- Thomas Sowell
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. -- Barack Obama
Women's rights, that antediluvian topic." -- Virginia Woolf
Management has no divine rights. -- Walter Reuther
I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights. -- Rudy Giuliani
Suffering gives us no special rights. -- Albert Camus
I've become an animal rights activist. -- Steve Wynn
Sexual intercourse vests no property rights. -- Spider Robinson
Two rights don't equal a left. -- Roald Dahl
I don't fight for bragging rights. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I'm not a gay rights activist. -- ASAP Rocky
... non-use of rights does not destroy them. -- Matilda Joslyn Gage
Therefore, states are equal in natural rights. -- William H. Seward
You can't have occupation and human rights. -- Christopher Hitchens
We support President Truman's civil rights program. -- Eugenie Anderson
Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights. -- William Ernest Hocking
I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights. -- Ryan North
I don't believe gun owners have rights. -- Sarah Brady
Don't waive your rights with your flags, -- Sage Francis
I recognize no rights but human rights. -- Angelina Grimke
The true source of rights is duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Your rights end where my nose begins. -- Abraham Lincoln
Atheism has no room for human rights. -- Richard Halverson
They have rights who dare maintain them. -- James Russell Lowell
Tolerance and human rights require each other. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Citizenship is the right to have rights. -- Earl Warren
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. -- Shirin Ebadi
Liberty is about our rights to question everything. -- Ai Weiwei
Without property rights, no other rights are possible. -- Ayn Rand
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Attack another's rights and you destroy your own. -- John Jay Chapman
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none -- Thomas Jefferson
I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights. -- Eva Longoria
I want to regain my First Amendment rights. -- Laura Schlessinger
Iran has a dismal record on human rights." -- Howard Berman

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