rights

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

In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.