#rights

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

#become #common #fate #indolent #prey

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#give #great #keep #natural #natural rights

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#bound #constitution #country #debate #england

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #easy #movement

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks. ↗

— John Doerr

#broadband #clear #compelling #content #economic

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#attempted #back #could #demanded #get

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation. ↗

— Russel Kirk

#human-rights #judgement-day #law #equality

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#civil rights #i #leader #rights #singer