What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Equal rights should not be debatable and certainly should not be put to a vote of the people. Would we ask the electorate to vote on whether or not Catholics and Protestants should marry? Of course we would not.
For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.
Regardless of their religious observance, citizens can and should unite around universal human rights and freedoms, and democratically oppose those who violate them.
A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.
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.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
