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There are things that should be allocated to states' rights - that's Gryffindor - and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.
The Second Amendment is the one that really protects all of our liberties that we are given by our Lord, and our God-given rights, and are protected under the Constitution.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of bosses. Repressive anti-union laws stunted the ability of workers to organise and defend their rights.
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights.
Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.
I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums.
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.
The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.
Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
If the Chinese government gets carried away with denying basic rights, then there will be a pushback from within.
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith.
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.
Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.
Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.
The United States needs to stop putting Israel's wants above Palestinian rights.
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.
The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Should the U.S. grant preferential treatment on trade to an egregious human rights violator that allows human traffickers to operate unencumbered within its borders? The obvious answer would seem to be 'No.'
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.
Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessible systems for registering, tracking and protecting land rights, including customary rights and common property resources.
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.
U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.
Any efforts or opportunity to expand the civil bonds and rights to anyone that wants to build a stable, happy household should be promoted.
It's a zero sum game: the Court either expands individual rights or expands the government's right to regulate individuals.
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.
We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.
To my dismay, inadequate signage, non-ADA compliant ramps, narrow doorways, and poorly-placed voting machines are preventing hundreds of thousands of people from exercising one of our most basic rights as Americans.
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
I stand not just for a disability, but I stand for women and women's rights.
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.
For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
Trump did not reverse a policy that allows the mentally ill to purchase firearms as reporters, media pundits and anti-Second Amendment activists have recklessly claimed. Instead, he's given millions of individuals their constitutional rights back.
A person in power should never use his position to intimidate citizens from exercising their rights.
In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.
It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not 'privatize' religion and quarantine it from the public square.
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
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.
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.
Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
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