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If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. - John Dingell Quotes
I will fight for my bill to restore Americans First Amendment political speech rights now restricted in the name of campaign reform. - Roscoe Bartlett Quotes
What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. - Elbridge Gerry Quotes
Im just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy. - Brendan Fraser Quotes
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will. - Antonin Scalia Quotes
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done. - Elijah Cummings Quotes
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation. - Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes
There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. - Max Baucus Quotes
In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didnt have the rights to the movie. I couldnt duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement. - Jan De Bont Quotes
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. - Alice Paul Quotes
Irans continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security. - Allyson Schwartz Quotes
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. - Elijah Cummings Quotes
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. - John Charles Polanyi Quotes
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market. - Cynthia Mckinney Quotes
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well. - William Weld Quotes
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together. - Robert Menendez Quotes
I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir. - Fawn Hall Quotes
They dont have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. - Tom Allen Quotes
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. - Jonathan Lethem Quotes
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. - John Philpot Curran Quotes
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. - Pasquier Quesnel Quotes
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isnt because of Black Power, isnt because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; its not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. - Stokely Carmichael Quotes
We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And theres very little we can do about that. - Richard Curtis Quotes
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial. - Lyman Trumbull Quotes
Human rights - especially those of non-Moslems or non- Arabs - simply do not have the same absolute value that they do in the West. - Meir Kahane Quotes
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. - Caleb Cushing Quotes
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. - Emma Goldman Quotes
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesnt have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them. - Henry Hampton Quotes
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them. - Bjorn Ulvaeus Quotes
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about. - John Hume Quotes
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