#rights

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#deprived #history #iranian #just #past

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#belief #creatures #deserve #equal #equal opportunity

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#i #occupation #opinion #others #rights

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#found #front #give #line #minimum

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#cast #casts #commission #committee #disarmament

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #been #every #film-makers #francisco

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#complete #confers #confidence #false #gift

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#government #individual #insure #plot #rights

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. ↗

— Ted Olson

#court #fundamental #fundamental rights #held #marriage