Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all..

The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming po….

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice….

Gay People can’t do this. Women shouldn’t be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you’re attacking my rights..

I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not w….

Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and ….

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a jus….

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights..

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not ….

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination i….

The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human….

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 freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country..

I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's to her ….

You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do me….

The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly indepen….

I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler ha….

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop..

Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of t….

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybo….