I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter seeks to protect the rights of all citizens to freely practice their creed.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers.
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I don't trust that populists are going to defend religious liberty and the rights of creedal minorities.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.
Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
I've earned some decent money, and bragging rights, and boxed on a Floyd Mayweather undercard in Vegas... but it's a fraction of what I set out to do.
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on.
