You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people for the rights of workers and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women you can't progress.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

If we're going to change the laws let's 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.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

The meek shall inherit the Earth but not its mineral rights.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life secondly to liberty and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.

Half a century ago the amazing courage of Rosa Parks the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights I shall stand very much alone.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.