#rights

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#believe #characters #costume #else #few

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#against #believe #dollar #every #federal

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#act #after #before #civil #civil rights

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#aggressively #believe #businesses #economic #economic system

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#believe #founded #group #i #individual

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#choices #free #free speech #help #infringing

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#class #concern #democratic #democratic party #economic

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#civil #civil rights #confirming #endanger #half

The battle for women's rights has been largely won. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#battle #been #largely #rights #women

When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game? ↗

— Steve Sabol

#before #bid #championship #double #father