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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

Benjamin Franklin

We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely without injury or loss of life from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...

Bill Clinton

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carter

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

James Madison

The right to life is the source of all rights--and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

Ayn Rand

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Edgar Watson Howe

States have the right to draw the line between abortion and infanticide. [This Act] defines the point at which a child is a person under the law and therefore entitled to rights, including the most basic right to life.

Robert Muise

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Novalis

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

Senator John Kerry

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Hebbel

It's important that kids feel free to exercise their First Amendment rights, but they should also know that it isn't without consequences.

Robert Schwartz

By denying these groups a voice in the U.N.'s human rights processes, the government has effectively denied a place for LGBT people globally.

Paula Ettelbrick

There have been tests and studies done on a lot of these different filters and none of them are as good as they claim to be. For home use, they'd be just fine, but for library use...it would block some things that adults have the rights to see (like medical information).

Rosann Sanders

Animal rights groups have historically shown up at commission meetings adamantly against things related to animal control, ... We now have the Humane Society's blessing. If we can satisfy the animal rights people, we've done a big thing. They're our biggest critics, but it's not a bad thing they keep us straight.

Michael Dale

I think there'd be a lawsuit out there no matter what we did. There'd be a lawsuit or an Office of Civil Rights complaint.

Laura Searcy

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

Don Rose

Having been arrested in the early 60s for civil rights and to be recognized by the same entity that arrested you, it means very much. It's a total circle— a 360 degree turn.

Raoul Cunningham

Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

Nan Aron

Coconut Grove helped us get the rights. The play moved me and seemed perfect for our audience. It felt like it was in the stars for me to do.

David Ellenstein

These kids live in the same communities and hang out, so the intensity will be there. They're playing not just for state but for personal bragging rights, so everybody's coming to play.

Dondi Mcgowan

It was hard to narrow Civil Rights events to 10.

Michael Miles

Congress passed a law in civil rights cases ... when a plaintiff sues and prevails, the defendant pays a reasonable fee.

Warren Plowden

We must defend our rights and preserve our constitution, ... For the federal courts to adopt the agenda of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and to remove the knowledge of God and morality from our lives is wrong.

Roy Moore

The rights and freedoms that citizens enjoy - give a little here; take a little there - are still the same as they were in the beginning.

Stockwell Day

Victims ought to have more rights than a killer.

Sue Young

We truly convinced that the respect and protection of human rights and freedoms are the main pillars of a pluralistic democratic society.

Fatos Nano

Parents need to know that their children 12-18 years old are treated like they are criminals. Our kids basically lose their rights because an officer can out talk them.

John Romano

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The individual cases of injustice put a human face on the systemic and structural lack of protection for people's rights.

Sharon Hom

The conduct of the defendants shocks the conscience and demonstrates deliberate indifference to the rights, privileges and immunities of the Times Leader and the public.

Ralph Kates

China's traditional administration can't resolve the problem of the lack of human rights. I hope we can develop just procedures and create judiciary channels to preserve people's rights and interests in the future.

Li Shuguang

For Gary to say the negotiations are now only a matter of dollars and cents is both simplistic and misleading. There continue to be a myriad of issues to address, including player rights and system issues that impact the daily lives and careers of players, the way the game is played and marketed, and the growing financial disparities between clubs in a league with no meaningful revenue sharing.

Bob Goodenow

This is not meant to make fun of ourselves or the people who want to come here. But people do need to know what kind of country they are coming to. You have to know a little about the values here, like the fact that men and women have the same rights.

Maud Bredero

There is no reform except through jihad, ... We have to realize the nature of this conflict: Our enemies do not agree with or approve of our rights.

Ayman Al zawahiri

Our economy is stagnant; we need to create more jobs and promote economic growth, ... We need to expand access to health care, enact a patients' bill of rights, and adopt a real prescription drug benefit for our seniors.

Steny Hoyer

The ACCC maintains that regardless of a creditor having a potential further right of access to the courts, the Trade Practices Act 1974 precludes the creditor from misleading consumers about their rights when pursuing the debt in the meantime by claiming or suggesting it is entitled to the outstanding monies.

Graeme Samuel

Without a determined constituency pressuring for engagement in international affairs, it would be likely that - given the difficulties in Iraq - you would have had the administration hunkering down a bit, and the American people with them. But instead, you have these substantial forces pushing on human rights causes and demanding intervention.

Allen Hertzke

Through the broad extent of country over which you have marched by your respect for the rights and property of citizens, you have shown that you were soldiers not only to defend but able and willing to defend and protect.

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

The students will be regular matriculating students and have access to all the rights and services available to other students.

Alvin Thornton

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Shirin Ebadi

Good Times is a wonderful product of the 1960s. If not for the civil rights movement, you would not have had a Good Times .

Ralph Carter

As a business man, I can only thank German politicians for helping to sell my movie. As a democrat, however, I am disgusted with this attempt to play politics with the basic rights of free speech and expression.

Anil Sahin

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

John Wooden

He needs to make an unequivocal statement that he opposes any ballot initiative that takes away the rights of gay and lesbian couples. That is unclear in his statement.

Geoffrey Kors

The new text substantially advances the discussion and gives a good basis to achieve a stronger human rights council, assuming there is a decision to have members of the council elected by a two-thirds majority.

Peggy Hicks

John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's rights.

Debra L. Ness

I got asked, a lot of people are asking. This has put us backward. In the name of human rights, this report is a threat to our human rights in Canada.

Neethan Shan

New Jersey's constitution cannot possibly be subject to the discrimination of the other states. We will see a patchwork in this nation as we have in other civil rights law.

David Buckel

Rosa Parks was a symbol of fighting for civil rights. She personified simple eloquence.

Hilary Shelton

The presumption of innocence remains and protecting those offenders on the register from vigilantes is essential. However there must be a balance, as communities can have rights as well as individuals. Communities have the right to know who is within their midst that may be dangerous, in order to ensure the protection of our children.

Kenny Macaskill

We are very pleased to have secured the exploration rights to this interesting block and to be participating in Madagascar's fast growing exploration effort.

Brian Hall

He is entitled to a protection of his legal rights and a protection of his reputation.

Pat Rogers

We cannot allow the U.S. Constitution and our rights to become a victim of terrorism.

Michael Grecco

I don't see where the concern is - all rights are guaranteed under Islam. We are willing to meet all stipulations for protecting individual rights, but Islam is a big part of the character of the Iraqi people.

Saad Jawad Qindeel

It merely says, and I quote, 'equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Carolyn Maloney

In this group, people try to help and let everybody know what [your rights are].

Alba Quinones

Open your books, show us how much you make, and allow us to then see if we can give you logo rights for $1 a year, or something like that.

John Elkington

The protocols were designed to help protect the athletes' rights. We're not trying to withhold anything; we're doing what we're supposed to do in relation to a robust anti-doping program.

Mike Hooper

It was simply a strategic business decision as to where to invest our money. There was a lengthy evaluation process and we gathered information in order to make a strategic business decision. We put a lot of time and effort to consider bidding on the naming rights, but in the end we decided to bid solely on the pouring rights.

Amy Polacko

If you don't assert rights, you don't have them. It's easy to go pay the money and think that it's over, but it's not.

Susan Roberts

Therefore, the proclamation has no effect on the Bill of Rights -- specifically the freedom of speech, of expression or of the press and the right of the people to peaceful assembly and to petition the government for redress and grievances.

Marlon Manuel

Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic."

Joseph Anderson

There were a huge number of these vested rights cases. It was a conscious decision. It was something that we thought was a way to ease the development industry into this.

Susan Johnson

I don't think it's a lost cause and I certainly hope to get the Department of Justice in line with us. At this time, we're trying to pursue filing an injunction. If the (American Civil Liberties Union) finds that the rights of detainees are impeded, we may be able to get it.

John Ovink

When it comes to reading, parents can ensure that their children's literacy rights are honored! Talk to your child's school and find out about the quality reading practices that are going on in the classroom.

Carmelita K. Williams

This bill doesn't contain real reform. Instead, this bill strips citizens of their political rights and unconstitutionally attempts to regulate political speech.

Tom Delay

Taxpayers have rights they should use when appropriate. But anyone who abuses those rights should understand they can incur significant penalties.

Kevin Brown

This is an agency that is very difficult to work for right now. They're out to intimidate the workforce and assert these management rights.

Doug Church

The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from time to time, to be reminded of our roots.

Bruce S. Gordon

If the dignity and rights of those who appear before Congress are not respected, they are justified not to appear there.

Prospero Nograles

I would like to remind all French men and French women to gather together to defend human rights, to guarantee the cohesion of the nation and to affirm the unity of the republic.

Jacques Chirac

We are going to vigorously attack the law in courts, ... Congress has no power to retroactively deprive people of their rights.

Dennis Henigan

We're dealing here with different cultures, and although we must continue to express our concerns in a very vigorous and a very forthright manner, we must understand that human rights is one of a whole constellation of issues in which our government engages the Chinese government and the Chinese people.

Jim Sasser

While I believe in the media industry's right to use copy protection mechanisms to prevent illegal copying, I don't think that we've found the right balance of fair use and copy protection yet. This is a clear case of Sony taking [digital rights management] too far.

Mark Russinovich

I'm very surprised - exercising our voting rights is our right. How can that be a bullying tactic?

Ronny Tong

Unless admonished and punished by this Honorable Court, the Army officials would continue to trample upon the rights of accused and in the process disregard the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court.

Roel Pulido

They want to take this to the ultimate extreme. If we go by the history of amendments to the Constitution in this country, it's only ever been done to give more rights to people, not to take rights away. That's why this is particularly heinous.

Candace Gingrich

We weren't really pleased with her responses, although they weren't all bad, ... I just wondered why she was here, because she didn't seem to be the typical officeholder who was supportive of our equal rights.

Louise Young

Most historians consider ladies teas to be the foundation of what would eventually become the suffrage rights legislation.

Jan Knowles

But if that person has nothing to fear, nothing to hide, and is just being approached politely, that person by rights should not be concerned.

Michael Roach

For African leaders to stand up and reject someone whose turn it is because of his human rights record could be a real coming of age.

Reed Brody

Frankly, the risks are greater than the rights of workers in this state and other states.

John Trasviña

What ultimately happens is that they become the parents of what we know of as the civil rights movement and ultimately have so much to do with where the Latino community is today and without them in that crossroads it probably wouldn't have happened.

James Garcia

He was the prominent figure of the civil rights movement, promoting diversity not just for African-Americans but for everyone. It's a privilege to be recognized on a day that people are remembering Dr. King.

Colin Jones

That means international cooperation to resolve problems without passports, that no one country or one group of countries can solve on their own -- human rights, terrorism, climate change.

Shashi Tharoor

The first order of business was getting the rights cleaned up. So, we went through expedited arbitration ... Four and a half years, and my entire retirement [fund] later, we got all the rights back clean and clear.

Joe Camp

These tribunals were not courts. I had no rights.

Abdul Salam Zaeef

Given the different national conditions of China and Canada and given our different history and cultural traditions, it is quite normal for our two countries to have different views about human rights.

Falun Gong

The tobacco company can kill us. The package food companies can clog our arteries. The oil companies can provoke wars. But, apparently, there's no industry more despicable than the music industry. We are hated just because we refuse to acknowledge the public's God-given rights to steal music.

Larry Kenswil

This is the most important document of the civil rights era and their names are attached to that.

Jonathan Bass

It's a real big rivalry game. There will be 5,000 or 6,000 people at the game (tonight), this is for bragging rights.

John Beary

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Carl Schurz

The problem is, each state has its own sovereignty. In other words, it's the states' rights.

Paul Wallace

We protect the rights of Americans and their privacy, ... We do not violate them and we never will.

George Tenet

This is the first I've ever heard of a district to sell naming rights for a stadium.

Tim Allwein

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Joichi Ito

Abortion is a civil rights issue. The abortion industry targets minorities. Seventy-eight percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are located in minority neighborhoods.

Pam Fichter

I have no problem taking privileges away... It comes to a different level of basic human rights if you take away clothing and dignity. I don't know if it is consistent with the sheriff's core values.

Michael Gennaco

Declines are being led by the loss of dividend rights. That's caused the drop.

Hideyuki Ookoshi

We've given out a general comfort statement to the [TV] broadcasters saying you're the ones who brought us to the dance, so we'll do everything we can to protect those rights.

Richard Pound

My dad was a local boy who made good and opened the doors of the city to create a power base that reflected all the citizens of the city - Mexicans, Chinese, blacks and gays, ... They never held office and my dad was elected by those people and gave them a voice. He said we must fight for the rights of people who can't fight for themselves. That is the role of a democracy. That's what my dad did.

George Moscone

It's not as big an issue for our community as the denial of civil rights for Americans of Arab backgrounds. Our fight is on a different war front for us.

Aref Assaf

I love the idea of "the one" but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

Matthew Perry

Human rights basically have been dead in our country for three years. Physically, I am tired. But I am still fighting, as long as I am alive and my husband is jailed, I am going to keep fighting.

Laura Pollan

They didn't have the same rights as white people.

Juan Sanchez

We believe that people working together, doing the same job should have the same rights and privileges, ... The health of public broadcasting rests on people actually being able to build a career.

Arnold Amber

We set out to defend the proper rights of immigrants everywhere and we definitely achieved that. We will continue to fight for the cause to show the significance that this bill has on the people.

Luis Ibarra

Civil liberties, human rights, political reform - that's front-page material. And I want 80 percent of the news to be local.

Hisham Kassem

Individuals inside the diamond mines often experience human rights abuses by actually doing the mining. They're standing in knee-deep water for days at a time.

Mona Cadena

We want landowners to know they have choice when they are approached to lease their mineral rights. There is a difference among the independents and we want the communities where we operate to know that we have their best interests at heart. We always try to do the right thing for landowners and their property, drill safely and efficiently, and clean up the well site area once we've completed.

Dan Peters

Who will understand their key role in protecting our civil rights, who will recognize the significant impact of their decisions on our everyday lives.

Roderick Jackson

It's a modern day slavery. It's a modern day apartheid when people here are being used for their work and they don't have any rights whatsoever.

Paul Lopez

This government resolution infringes upon our rights. People bought cars, paid high customs duties, are paying taxes, and in an hour they have become outlawed.

Vyacheslav Lysakov

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

Michael Badnarik

It's all about bragging rights.

Richard Whitelaw

Married couples under state law get all kinds of rights to make decisions for each other automatically that unmarried couples don't now get no matter how long they've been together.

Lawrence Jacobs

What has saved the pews and what will revitalize this interest in a Frederick Douglass Freedom Center or something that gives appropriate recognition to the contributions that he and other people made in the area of civil and human rights, is an unprecedented willingness and desire to see it happen.

Van White

We started out a little rough, but we stepped it up in the fourth quarter. We wanted to win. We wanted the bragging rights, but we all were looking forward to this game.

Ben Alexander

For many of our friends who are gay, this is not a significant event in their lives. It doesn't mean that I can now claim Marilyn as a dependent. It doesn't mean that I can leave her my money without consequence. It doesn't give me the same rights as the average American.

Joan Smith

It is important to protect the rights of the athletes properly because the penalties are severe in the end.

Mike Fennell

It is certainly appropriate and within their rights to appeal, ... But we think there legal argument is without merit and would be rejected by the justices on grounds this is properly a case before the Florida Supreme Court because the issues are issues of state law.

Ron Klein

Black or non-black, gay or straight, Mrs. King dedicated her life to love, justice, equality, and global human rights and for that we are truly grateful.

Jasmyne Cannick

They were asking for a court to say Idaho Power hadn't defended its water rights at Swan Falls.

Greg Panter

We're already seeing an ebbing away of employee rights and we will be keeping a close eye on this area to see if companies are complying with the regulations.

Jen Corlew

It's difficult because Americans do things far differently. The athletes have rights. They qualify via criteria. It's not the way that some of these other nations do things, where they just take people and say, 'You're going to do this.' It's a challenge for us to keep up with that.

Jeff Wintersteen

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

Henry Brooke

He has no damaging reputation involving human rights.

Usman Hamid

My freedom of speech rights are very clear.

Larry Forgy

This is a sensitive issue. We cannot give up our rights. No Iranian will be ready to give up our rights, and they should know that we will remain firm.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.

Alistair Graham

Although the retreat of the Zionist regime from Gaza is short of Palestinian rights and demands, it is however a big victory that shows the inability of the occupier regime of Qods (Jerusalem).

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

We can have a dialogue on equal basis on all the questions, all the issues - including human rights.

American Studies

It is important that the terrorists be brought to trial and convicted of their crimes. It is equally important that the fight against terrorism be conducted in full respect to the principles of human rights and democracy.

Nikolaus Scherk

He heard from his base that this is a civil rights issue.

Geoffrey Kors

I've got to tell you: You're an idiot. I can't believe you just sold the development rights to one of the most developable pieces of land in Florida.

Cary Lightsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Linda Halsey

Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

Dr. John Marshall

We just want to make our demands very clear and explicit to the administration. The [Designated Supplier Program] is an integral part of ensuring workers' rights.

Ben Brewer

Selma, it is time for us now to put our civil war and civil rights history in the museum.

James Perkins

Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.

David Duke

This is a major breakthrough that will provide consumers with much needed protection and rights.

David Byrne

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

He helped expose the need for more stringent controls on an arms trade that all too often leads to weapons ending up in the hands of tyrants and human rights abusers.

Mike Blakemore

It's limited enough that you're not unduly focusing on anyone's First Amendment rights.

Mayor Scott Slifka

By combining the best qualities, technology and human capital of two of the top law firms in our specialty, Fisher and Shapiro, LLC will be even better positioned to respond to the needs of our clients on any creditor rights issue.

Barry Fisher

All CE members are equally committed to the supremacy of the law and human rights, yet some implement their programs at the expense of others.

Konstantin Kosachyov

We beseech your cooperation and help in permitting us the right to live in a country of total freedom where human rights are respected.

Jose Maria

The question is, what are the rights of free speech? Our belief is, no matter what, we should release the information as it becomes available.

Jose Leal

The new broadcasting rights agreement will deliver the best financial and national programming package in the history of the game and provide an important contribution to the ongoing growth of our game.

Andrew Demetriou

The 14th Amendment of the Constitution protects the rights of everyone standing on United States' ground. There is a difference in culture, but family and love and death all mean the same things whether you're in the U.S. or Honduras.

Richard Summers

If I have to allow censorship in order to do business there, then that's what I have to do. It's called capitalism. If [the U.S. government] felt so strongly about China, why isn't the government doing something about Tibet or sanctioning China because of its human-rights violations.

Mukul Krishna

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Dick Gregory

Simply put, given the enormity of the rights and responsibilities that accompany marriage, Massachusetts has a rational and substantial interest in ensuring that the marriages it creates will be recognized as valid outside its borders.

Justice Francis Spina

It is not because Muslims as individuals do not value individual rights or aspire for political freedom. Islam itself represents obstacles to the establishment of democratic systems.

Thomas Lippman

Don't mess with the Constitution, don't mess with the Bill of Rights and don't mess with Christianity.

Jim Goodnow

There are something like 1,000 rights that accrue to married couples under state law.

Michael J. Tucker

This is about making a choice to have our civil rights acknowledged and respected and protected as any human being.

Shannon Sickels

Only the most outrageous, truly inadmissible limitations on the rights of international organizations were dropped. The bill still provides for widespread and arbitrary repression of Russian and international NGOs. ... Individual officials will have an enormous amount of authority to prevent NGOs from operating.

Oleg Orlov

We've got the mentality that we expect to win every game we're in. From the standpoint of bragging rights, (that win) was big. It gave us a lot of confidence, but it did not surprise us. We've felt all along we could play with anybody.

Chad Frazier

There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months. Our business does rely on Microsoft's digital rights management software and our business model also relies on Microsoft's ecosystem of device manufacturers.

Chris Gorog

Republicans in San Francisco tend to be socially pretty liberal. They're all for gay rights but they're fiscally conservative and Willie Brown can deliver on that.

Phil Matier

Microsoft is willing to invest in the promotion of genuine software, because we know a healthy intellectual property rights environment is the foundation for building up China's knowledge economy. Microsoft is committed to working with partners to ensure that our customers get the most out of their PCs through the use of genuine software.

Tim Chen

It's about time we exercised some of our civil rights.

John Chavez

The only rights they have are the ones you give them today. Our right as residents is to expect that the county will not bail out a failing businessman to the detriment of the neighborhood.

Brian Coleman

If someone got terminated from my company tomorrow, it would be easy for me to revoke your rights to the presentations and documents that are spinning on their notebook computer. Once documents get out and you don't have a tie back to licensing authority how do you make those documents disappear?

Tom Jacobs

The old man said we are ready to give you the money we use to buy food for our children rather than kneel down because no one should compromise on their rights.

Aziz Dweik

He missed an opportunity to name somebody to the courts with the spirit of Rosa Parks, with diversity and minority rights.

Joseph Lowery

The Human Rights Campaign is one of the most liberal organizations in the country, and their endorsement of Bob Casey just goes to show how far outside the mainstream Bob Casey has become.

Virginia Davis

MSHA will take every step to protect the miners' interest in a fair and open investigation into this tragic accident, including ensuring that the UMWA can participate fully as the miners' representative. We made a commitment to the miners and the families on this. We are elated that the court agreed that the rights of miners' representatives must be protected.

David G. Dye

My appeal is based on his competency, and waiving his right to his lawyer, and Miranda rights.

Thomas Shaffer

We're confident the measures are being implemented in a way that protects people's rights to express themselves but also allows people to participate in the convention, which is also a form of expression.

Peter Ragone

I am so sad to have to do something like this to the city. I will not have my name tarnished or my rights violated. I have spoken to the mayor and advised him that this action is coming. I will not let this action come between me and my duties to the city of Patton Village.

Joe Schultea Jr

It is pretty shocking that governmental interference into our rights and free speech takes place in the U.S., ... It's hard to reconcile this with the 'land of the free' and the 'home of the brave.' .

Howard Stern

Given the apparent state of the law, the department cannot reasonably be held to have knowingly violated the organizers' civil rights.

Robert Aaronson

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

Hayao Miyazaki

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

Cynthia Mckinney

Strengthening democracy and advancing human rights through the establishment of a National Human Rights Commission that will consider the key recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will pave the way forward for Sierra Leone.

Victor Angelo

It is the time for the South Dakota Legislature to deal with this issue and protect the lives and rights of unborn children.

Julie Bartling

We look forward to bringing a new entertainment experience to our customers by delivering programming that consumers want while protecting the rights of our partners in the content community.

Dorothy Attwood

Crime is way too high. I'd really like to see people get to know their neighbors, and people start respecting each others' rights.

Jim Kaplan

Regardless of how things are going, it's prudent for us to see what the market will bear. We've had a couple of calls to say other parties are interested in our rights.

Tim Schuldt

There's a significant lack of equivalents in relation to civil partnership and partnership rights for gay people.

Niall Crowley

You know, movies are often made by tying up the hamburger rights and rubber-doll rights before the script is even approved.

Ali Macgraw

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

Robert Nozick

It is entirely consistent with the findings of a Human Rights Watch investigation conducted last year.

Jo Becker

Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing concluded, just as his civil rights record and views had been the most controversial part of his record when the hearing began.

Mel Watt

The civil rights of European Americans are being violated by affirmative action, forced integration and anti-European immigration policies... . We face cultural discrimination in the media and education... . An example is the media hate crime hysteria that highlights and publicizes any white crime against minorities.

David Duke

Of course we need to speed up the process (of intellectual property rights compliance) but we can't expect the problem to go away overnight.

Yan Xiaohong

Instead of beautifying a new area, we want to restore tree canopy within the DOT rights of way in the city of Pembroke Pines.

Skip Keibler

We urge President Olusegun Obasanjo to protect the rights and well-being of all Nigerians, and disavow this dangerous bill.

Paula Ettelbrick

I wish we had the movie rights to this deal, ... It's like Citizen Kane meets the Sopranos with Marx Brothers thrown in.

Phil Bronstein

My hope is he will take himself out of the partisan cast and see himself as the standard bearer for civil rights and civil liberties because that is what the Justice Department is supposed to do.

Laura Murphy

We have built upon the 'all rights reserved' concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary 'some rights reserved' approach.

Lawrence Lessig