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Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights. -- Nita Ambani
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society. -- Danny Kaye
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. -- William Blackstone
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. -- James Madison
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable. -- Barbara Mikulski
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. -- Wendell Phillips
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
In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans. -- Chris Coons
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. -- Andrei Sakharov
I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights. -- Ahmed Zewail
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We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. -- Jeffrey Sachs
I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage. -- Bob Casey, Jr.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. -- James Madison
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
However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. -- Adam Rickitt
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. -- Michael K. Simpson
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. -- Jim Garrison
My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children... -- Olara Otunnu
Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right. -- Abraham Lincoln
The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration. -- Jesse Jackson
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. -- Robin Gross
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. -- Thomas Jefferson
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws -- Voltaire
The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle. -- Dennis Miller
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. -- Alexander Hamilton
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. -- Alexander Hamilton
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. -- Glenn Reynolds
Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation. -- Steve Symms
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities. -- John F. Kennedy
It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else. -- Barack Obama
The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen. -- Susette La Flesche
Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job. -- Coretta Scott King
President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause. -- Elliott Abrams
Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates. -- Warren Farrell
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
The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights. -- Edward Kennedy
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium) -- John Ralston Saul
As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.' -- Nat Hentoff
I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies -- Thomas Jefferson

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