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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. -- Ted Cruz
Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America. -- Ryan Coogler
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. -- Charlotte Bunch
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores. -- Jeff Miller
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well. -- William Weld
We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property. -- Malcolm Wallop
It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s. -- Busy Philipps
I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien who deserves to be jailed. I want to look them in the eye and say, 'What makes you think I'm any different from you?' I think for our generation, immigration rights is a civil rights issue. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Education is the civil rights issue of our generation. -- Arne Duncan
Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time -- Joe Biden
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion. -- Augusto Pinochet
Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today. -- Michelle Obama
AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue. -- Nelson Mandela
Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery. -- Philip Wollen
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution. -- Chen Shui-bian
There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. -- Jesse Jackson
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
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. -- James Hansen
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial. -- Ali Khamenei
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me. -- Henry A. Kissinger
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. -- Rand Paul
The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings? -- Ray Kurzweil
Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had. -- Gail Zappa
By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore. -- Scott Fujita
The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- Mohammed Dahlan
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. -- Coretta Scott King
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue. -- Frances McDormand
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights. -- Donna Brazile
What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc. -- Chris Smith
The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law. -- Bruce Springsteen
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time. -- George Weigel
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores -- Jeff Miller

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