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What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Quote by Tom Clancy about liberty

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Quote by Alice Paul about opinion, equality, problems, rightness, nothing

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty. Let us have the rights we deserve.

Quote by Alice Paul about woman, liberty

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group...

Quote by Ron Paul about opinion, force, police, state

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Quote by Ron Paul about society, prison, violence

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Quote by James Payn about happiness, meetings, future, mind, man

The freedom of speech and the press are two of the most important rights we Americans possess under our Constitution.

Quote by Mike Pence about liberty, press, americans

In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international...

Quote by Li Peng about country, numbers, order, work

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about woman, man

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about tragedy, bad, rightness, world

In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are no idiots. But with us!... I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman... He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess......

Quote by Bolesław Prus about love, christianity, woman, animals, money, nature, rightness, contentment

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Quote by Charles Fourier about woman, principle, progress

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Quote by Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre about law, man