Quotes with civil-rights

Quotes 201 till 220 of 274.

  • Barbara Boxer The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bob Barr The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Gloria Steinem The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Agnes Repplier The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Susan B. Anthony The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Jean Paul Getty The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Barbara Mikulski The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Stokely Carmichael There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
    What we want (1966)
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Bernie Sanders There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
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  • Caleb Cushing 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.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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