#rights

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#i #individuals #liberal #mean #prospect

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#american dream #choose #democrats #dream #education

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#bill of rights #create #designed #did #framers

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#human #human rights #interests #national #national interests

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#black #civil #civil rights #country #every

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#armed #beyond #direct #human-rights #interests

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#does #equal #equal rights #intelligent #men

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. ↗

— Jim Costa

#catalyst #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #experience

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