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All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. -- Ida B. Wells
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. -- Joichi Ito
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. -- Shana Alexander
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. -- Maximilien Robespierre
China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. -- Hu Jintao
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers. -- Pat Robertson
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. -- Anna Lindh
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. -- Alfred Marshall
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches. -- David Souter
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. -- Jonathan Sacks
The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. -- John Marshall Harlan
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books. -- Jeff Miller
If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. -- John Dingell
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions. -- Dorothy Height
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. -- Calvin Coolidge
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence. -- Shereen El Feki
While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern. -- Jay Nixon
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. -- Ayn Rand
Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property. -- Noam Chomsky
When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights. -- Constance Baker Motley
Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have. -- Lawrence Lessig
I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all. -- Roseanne Barr
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. -- Charles Edward Merriam
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. -- Thomas Jefferson
The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights. -- Frank Gaffney
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. -- Dorothy Height
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won. -- Joichi Ito
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive. -- Steve Clevenger
I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights. -- Jill Stein
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. -- Pamela Yates
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. -- Shana Alexander
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. -- Samuel Adams
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law. -- Donald Trump
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. -- Lucy Stone
Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable. -- Mairead Corrigan
Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. -- Fulton J. Sheen
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless. -- Henry Rollins
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. -- Alice Paul
For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law. -- Henry Campbell Black
Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy. -- Elena Kagan
A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions. -- Edmund Phelps
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. -- Immanuel Kant
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition. -- John Adams
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. -- John Marshall
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law. -- J. M. Coetzee
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. -- Alex Kozinski
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. -- Barton Gellman
Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards. -- Edward Snowden
I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. -- Paul Martin
The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution. -- Ai Weiwei
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may. -- Frederick Douglass
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The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life. -- Mary Burnett Talbert
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough. -- Ben Stein
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. -- William Hague
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism. -- Russ Feingold
Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration. -- Ron Wyden
In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator. -- Laura Wasser
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism. -- Joichi Ito

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