#rights

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. ↗

— Eric Holder

#appear #bin #corpse #courtroom #deal

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#among #certain #created #creator #endowed

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#human #human rights #more #much #praised

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all. ↗

— Evo Morales

#diversity #equal #equal rights #new #republic

It was hard not to feel resentment that men weren't forced into these choices. Some days she felt that she would spend all her time trying to forget her life before children because she loved them too much to be reminded of the heat of Rome in the summer and a beautiful girl who turned heads as she walked down an Italian strada. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#women-s-liberation #women-s-rights #beauty

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification. ↗

— Thomas Day

#awful #britain #equally #favourable #her

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#expression #freedom #most #rights #sacred

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#appreciate #better #civil #civil rights #could

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got