Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not 'privatize' religion and quarantine it from the public square.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.
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.
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
We have to, as a progressive movement, organize climate justice and reproductive rights and racial justice. We've got to do this. We can't continue to organize in silos.
Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our requests for timely statements of the film's income have been met with a series of slammed doors.
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.
School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.
We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.
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.
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.
