“Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.” NeedsHumansCountryStatesPoliticalEconomyRightsModernDemocraticProfoundHuman RightsProtectionOpeningOur CountryReformIdeologicalOpening UpPluralismMixed Economy Author:Andrei Sakharov
“There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.” PeopleKnowsShouldBelieveHumansCountryAmericaHuman BeingsRightsOur CountryEntitledConstitutional Rights Author:Bernie Sanders
“Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.” CountryRightsOur Country Author:Chris Cuomo
“Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.” FirstsCountryWholeLawValuesGoalRightsAchieveBuildingCollegeConflictDemocraticToleranceOur CountryResolutionCooperationAmendmentsConsensusFirst AmendmentPluralismFirst Amendment RightsConsensus Building Author:Samuel Alito
“I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.” PeopleThinkingSelfCountryJobsChoicesIndividualRightsMilitaryGayMarriedArmyOur CountryRadicalAcknowledgeRevolutionaryAgendasPlatformsAdoptedBehalfTransgenderQualificationsOur ChoicesAdvocatingBisexualJoining The Army Author:Barney Frank
“It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.” PeopleMenFirstsLooksMadeBookCountryGovernmentChristianHumanityNationsChristRightsAtheismTruth IsConstitutionFoundationFoolishOur CountryLook UpDestroyingDeitiesFramedSacredness Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.” WritingTryingKindCountrySongStruggleSuccessfulRightsMovementWorkersCivil RightsOur CountryProgressiveWomens RightsCivil Rights MovementSoundtracksBarricadesWorkers Rights Author:Tom Morello
“Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayCountryGovernmentCan DoRightsSeriousProtectTerroristOur CountryCorporationsTelephonesWebsiteFree SocietyNsaTerrorist AttacksConstitutional RightsOrwellianRight To Privacy Author:Bernie Sanders
“Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.” MenWellsMeanCountryHumorAmericaPoliticalValuesNationsPresidentRightsWonderfulProudHonorBlessedOur CountryFourthJulyPolitical HumorUnimaginableStartersInalienable RightsProud Man Author:George W. Bush
“Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.” PeopleFirstsCountryGovernmentAmericaCertainBeliefGivenReligiousRolesRightsProtectSafeBuiltDiscriminationOur CountryPersecutionExileReligious FreedomInalienable RightsReligious Persecution Author:Marco Rubio
“I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.” PeopleSaidCountryNationsReligiousRightsHeardSonBearsGloryConstitutionOriginalsProtectionCivil RightsOur CountryProphetPurityThreadJoseph SmithZionReligious Rights Author:Eliza R. Snow
“The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.” CountrySocialJusticeKnownRightsMovementEthicsSocial JusticeCivil RightsOur CountryRootedCivil Rights MovementCivil Right Movement Author:Bell Hooks
“It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.” ImportantCountryStatesHouseLosesBehindsRightsInvolvedGainsOur CountrySeatsRepresentativesWomens RightsLackingLegislatureHouse Of RepresentativesState LegislaturesRedistricting Author:Eleanor Smeal
“I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's.” WantCountryRightsSonOur CountryMy SonVocal Author:Sandra Bullock