Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which...

I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles and platform crowded to overflowing. He held that vast audience for three hours...

I’ve been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children’s charities over the years.

Communities don’t have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

There are no secrets on the Internet

If you don’t have the rights, you can’t do the show.

I Have a Dream… someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings. I Have a Dream… someday the human & civil rights of individuals with disabilities are honored...

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

We support President Truman’s civil rights program.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.-Aras

I’m always trying to push for women’s rights.

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that...

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.”What sort of tools?”More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance....

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value.If all men are equal, then all men are of...

Well, I’m not here to impinge on anybody else’s lifestyle. If I’m in a place where I know I’m going to harm somebody’s health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go...

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

not in my name.” They didn’t wait for the conventions of society to catch up to God’s laws. They pushed. They pressed. And they were victorious.

Freedom… Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used...

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to...

Homeowners’ Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

I’ve been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, ‘it would be a good idea,’ to quote Gandhi.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart —...

Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected.

1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris:The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs to him. This is a fundamental rule of natural law, human rights and civil...

humanely” we treat them.

When you’re silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct...

First and foremost, I’m a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don’t know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution...

Man’s right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word “freedom” should ever be more than an empty political...

A right doesn’t include the material implementation of that right by other men;it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one’s own effort.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Change is possible through dialogue and unity. We must be ever vigilantto uncover the historical roots of the conflicts that divide us,ever vigilant to speak the truth to power. And it is to historythat we...

When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and “compassionate” or “certified humane” or whatever, which *may* be *slightly* less hideous. But it’s all torture. It’s all wrong. These “happy”...

Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their ‘unbeliefs.’ Without unbelief, we might well be living in the Dark Ages or at least in the...

Lord lead us to the right places.

I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don’t see why someone who’s a feminist should be thought of differently.