I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.
As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.
I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God-given rights.
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
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.
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.
When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.
Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.
If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love.
If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
