#rights

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#attempted #back #could #demanded #get

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#also #democracy #economy #expanding #freedoms

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#complexion #god-given #human #human being #i

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#been #books #championing #country #i

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#characteristic #commonplace #hour #impose #itself

Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#capture #civil #civil rights #entourage #equal

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#biggest #birth #birth control #civil #civil rights

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#children #equality #face #gay #gay marriage

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#congress #done #empowering #i #marching