Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard..
Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcemen….
Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful ….
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, ….
Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast b….
In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want..
Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods..
My beliefs really haven't changed since I was in government. If anything, it gave me appreciation for how challenging it is for the government to bal….
Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't..
Rights are subordinate to responsibilities..
People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis….
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to ex….
How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial ….
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of perso….
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think that….
I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are no….
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without….
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take ….
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not ….
The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that th….
The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism.