#rights

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. ↗

— Robert Reich

#attention #been #divisive #economic #economic values

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#basic rights #believe #firmly #foundation #i

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#commitment #community #days #equal #equal rights

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#dearly #decline #even #i #ii

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#anything #ashcroft #attack #attorney #attorney general

The idea of equal rights was in the air. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#equal #equal rights #idea #rights

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. ↗

— William Godwin

#assistance #cases #certain #forbearance #kinds

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. ↗

— David Talbot

#anti-war #bobby #california #came #campaign

The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong. ↗

— Dionigi Tettamanzi

#equal #rights #strong #weak #weaker

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#demands #gives #intelligent #man #rights