#rights

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#because #consequences #desire #disagree #i

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. ↗

— Richard Scaife

#defense #funding #government #ideas #individual

The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#basis #civil #civil rights #civil rights act #completes

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#accountants #bill #bill of rights #decisions #doctors

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

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings. ↗

— Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

#fundamental principle #human #human rights #idea #islamic

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

— Evo Morales

#diversity #equal #equal rights #new #republic

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#equal #equal rights #family #fighting #had