If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed..

I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such ta….

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and bec….

For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Ame….

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, ….

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization,….

I recognize no rights but human rights..

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have been a….

...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Churchor State; and that ….

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral natu….

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights..

In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not pro….

Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no….

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medici….

The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school….

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with ….

My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law a….

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously er….

I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden….

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but ….

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights..