rights

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

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.

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

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

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.