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I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

Quotes by Ed Lee

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Quotes by Ed Markey

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Quotes by E. W. Howe

If we're discussing women's empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.

Quotes by Dulquer Salmaan

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

Quotes by Douglas Hurd

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

Quotes by Douglas Brinkley

Contrary to the myth that the U.K. respects decisions of the Strasbourg court but many other adherent states do not, the convention and Strasbourg court judgements have proved a highly effective tool in protecting and developing human rights in countries with no tradition of the rule of law.

Quotes by Dominic Grieve

In the past there has been debate as to whether or not traditional rights such as that to trial by jury might be protected or if a Bill of Rights should extend into areas of social and economic policy.

Quotes by Dominic Grieve

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

Quotes by Dominic Raab

Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.

Quotes by Dmitry Medvedev

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

Quotes by Dick Ebersol

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Quotes by Diane Watson

Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.

Quotes by Diane Wood

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Quotes by Derrick Bell

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Quotes by David Price

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

Quotes by David Prowse

The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

Quotes by David Harsanyi

Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.

Quotes by Dave Rubin

Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supported him in the heat of abolitionism. But the atmosphere changed to one of repression after the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

Quotes by Darryl Pinckney

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Quotes by Danny Glover

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

Quotes by Danielle Steel

I take gun rights very personally.

Quotes by Dana Loesch

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

Quotes by Dan Savage

South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.

Quotes by Cyril Ramaphosa

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

Quotes by Cynthia McKinney

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

Quotes by Curt Weldon

I've made sure that I've stood for privacy and the rights of the people time and time again.

Quotes by Cory Gardner

We have to protect the rights of the American people.

Quotes by Cory Gardner

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.

Quotes by Coretta Scott King

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

Quotes by Colson Whitehead

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

Quotes by Cliff Stearns

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Quotes by Clarence Thomas

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

Quotes by Claire McCaskill

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

Quotes by Cindy Gallop

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

Quotes by Chuck Schumer

Ukip has policies including cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting them up for everyone else, charging people to see their GP, or taking away maternity rights.

Quotes by Chuka Umunna

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

Quotes by Christopher Gadsden

In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.

Quotes by Chris Roberson

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

Quotes by Chen Shui-bian

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Quotes by Charles Tupper

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

Quotes by Charles M. Blow

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Quotes by Charles Fourier

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.

Quotes by Charles A. Beard

It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.

Quotes by Charles Boustany

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.

Quotes by Chad Hurley

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

Quotes by Cecile Richards

We were given a system of government that places the people at the center of all decision-making and relies on the consent of the governed, with our rights and the government's limitations clearly outlined.

Quotes by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.

Quotes by Caster Semenya

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

Quotes by Casey Wilson

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.

Quotes by Carlos Fuentes

To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.

Quotes by Carles Puigdemont

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

Quotes by Calvin Johnson

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

Quotes by Caleb Cushing

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

Quotes by Bulent Ecevit

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Quotes by Buchi Emecheta

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Quotes by Bryan Cranston

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

Quotes by Bryan Burrough

I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.

Quotes by Bruce Rauner

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

Quotes by Brian Sandoval

When Marvel got the rights to Namor, I thought I'd be the perfect fit.

Quotes by Brian Tee

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Quotes by Breyten Breytenbach

I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.

Quotes by Brendan Fraser

Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

Quotes by Bradley A. Smith

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

Quotes by Boris Yeltsin

Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we're building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.

Quotes by Bonnie Hammer

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Quotes by Bobby Scott

Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.

Quotes by Blase J. Cupich

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

Quotes by Bjorn Ulvaeus

If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?

Quotes by Bill Nelson

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Quotes by Bill Maher

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Quotes by Bill Keller

Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the merits of the complaint.

Quotes by Betsy DeVos

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Quotes by Bernhard Schlink

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

Quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

Quotes by Benjamin Todd Jealous

Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades.

Quotes by Benjamin Wittes

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

Quotes by Benito Juarez

In both Burma and Laos, we have engaged countries that were once adversaries, and will continue to do so in ways that promote good relations, development, and human rights.

Quotes by Ben Rhodes

I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I don't trust that populists are going to defend religious liberty and the rights of creedal minorities.

Quotes by Ben Sasse

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

Quotes by Belinda Carlisle

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Quotes by bell hooks

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

Quotes by Beau Garrett

On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

Quotes by Basmah bint Saud

China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but 'woke' activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.

Quotes by Bari Weiss

The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.

Quotes by Ban Ki-moon

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Quotes by B. F. Skinner

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Quotes by Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Quotes by Ayn Rand

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Quotes by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Zionism needn't continue, and won't continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.

Quotes by Ayelet Shaked

Everyone must have their rights, and in fact everyone gets their rights.

Quotes by Ayelet Shaked

The state should say that there is place to maintain the Jewish majority even if it violates rights.

Quotes by Ayelet Shaked

Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national rights.

Quotes by Ayelet Shaked

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

Unlike the Congress, the AAP stands for democratic rights of states, stands against the infringement of democratic rights by the Centre.

Quotes by Atishi

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