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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one’s rights–even if the new way to stand up for one’s rights is to sit down.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity…

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn’t acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

The greatest contribution you can make to women’s rights, is to be the absolute … best at what you do.

The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism

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.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

You don’t have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support – just concerning human rights in general.

I can’t remember when I wasn’t an animal rights activist.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

I’m against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not – and must not – restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

I do think it’s extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.