When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politic...
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of the...
I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard?
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties...
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least l...
A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.
I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.
There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have been kicked out from several places because they are seen as a possible security th...
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as ind...
He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was ma...