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EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.
Ellen Malcolm
Day
Rights
Trust
Fight
Women
Every Day
Treat
Every
Honestly
Our
Members
Emily
Blanche
Failed
Democratic
Make
Proud
Lincoln
End
Up
Pro-Choice
List
Committed
Candidates
Hold
Us
Bargain
Stand
Stand Up
Whom
Deeply
Her
Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.
Elliott Abrams
Rights
Problem
Cause
Election
Slow
Delay
Year
Human Rights
Birth
Backing
Evidence
Syria
Libya
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Stealing
Never
Reaction
Iran
June
Green
Office
Egypt
Human
Movement
Now
Third
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.
Elliott Abrams
War
Rights
Argument
Human Rights
Cold
Cold War
President
Allies
Had
Ready
Reagan
West
Debates
Shirk
Did
Soviets
Human
Ronald Reagan
Height
Satellites
I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
Elliott Abrams
Life
Me
Rights
Long
First
Met
Military
Human Rights
State
State Department
Secretary
Ruling
Kim
East
East Asia
Threatened
Directed
Had
He
Him
Because
Korean
Reagan
Department
Bureau
Human
Regime
Asia
Whose
Shunned
Assistant
If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
Emma Thompson
Food
You
Rights
Women
Whatever
Human Rights
Must
Shelter
Provide
Human
Want
Them
Then
Basic
Basic Human Rights
Need
We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.
Emmanuel Macron
Rights
Key
Job
Creation
Market
Visibility
Job Creation
More
Investors
Implementing
Employers
Because
Reduce
Provide
Labor
Efficiency
Reform
In-Depth
Workers
Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland recognises that vulnerable communities need very considerable assistance in adapting to climate change.
Enda Kenny
Education
Justice
Change
Rights
Strong
Gender
Building
Human Rights
Adapting
Considerable
Our
Recognises
Record
Area
Developing
Developing Countries
Supporting
Countries
Like
Track
Track Record
Vulnerable
Climate
Climate Change
Ireland
Very
Human
Communities
Including
Assistance
Need
There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Rights
Worse
States
Recognition
Immigrants
Evolved
California
Still
Much
Even
Even Worse
I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.
Eric Holder
Justice
Rights
Young
Rights Movement
Must
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Since
Robert
Robert Kennedy
Force
Boy
Always
How
Prove
Department
Department Of Justice
Movement
Loved
Which
Ever
Right
Kennedy
Watched
In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.
Eric Holder
You
Justice
Rights
Ways
Kind
Civil
Civil Rights
Division
Almost
Lot
Department
Justice Department
Measure
Conscience
I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.
Eric Holder
Work
Time
Myself
Rights
Way
Systematic
Civil
Civil Rights
Give
General
My Time
Animated
Like
Attorney
Attorney General
Involve
Involved
Issues
Continue
Reform
Just
Being
Want
Speeches
I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.
Eric Holder
Rights
Law
First
Others
Citizens
Law Enforcement
Seeking
Join
Tensions
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Exercising
Discord
Condemning
Been
Ferguson
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Inflame
Sow
Urge
Enforcement
Who
Actions
Peacefully
Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.
Eric Holder
Needs
Family
Rights
Sympathy
Respected
Those
Must
Brown
Journalists
Covering
Michael
Michael Brown
Times
Story
Harassed
Who
Express
Peacefully
Gather
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
Eric Liu
Rights
Conservatives
Progressives
Immigrants
Citizenship
More
Withhold
Than
Forget
Thing
Set
I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.
Eric Schlosser
Food
You
Rights
Animal
People
Vegetables
Care
Stronger
Vegan
Human Rights
Defense
Favor
See
About
Animal Rights
Take
Vegetarian
Picking
Like
Hand
Human
Movement
Fruits
Much
Should
Stand
Your
Who
Basic
Basic Human Rights
In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations.
Eric Schneiderman
Finance
Rights
Law
First
Corporations
Ruled
Sections
Citizens
Restrictions
Federal
Unconstitutional
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Supreme
Supreme Court
Known
Court
Imposed
Campaign
Campaign Finance
Amendment
Amendment Rights
United
Our rights to live and to love each other, those rights are greater than any other right in the Constitution, period.
Eric Swalwell
Love
Constitution
Rights
Live
Other
Our
Those
Period
Greater
Than
Any
To Love
Each
Right
This is our country, our water. We're entitled to a good life. It's a human rights issue.
Erin Brockovich
Life
Good
Rights
Water
Entitled
Country
Human Rights
Good Life
Our
Rights Issue
Issue
Human
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.
Ernest Istook
War
Property
Rights
People
Enjoy
Those
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Protesting
Provide
Iraq
Same
Want
Public
Should
Who
Express
Beliefs
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Ernestine Rose
Rights
Matter
Nothing
Human Rights
Books
Dead
Opinions
Came
Opposition
Human
Whom
Letters
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
Ernestine Rose
Character
Man
Rights
Woman
Recognized
Would
Would-Be
Folly
Detrimental
Equal
She
Were
Cease
Away
Her
The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Man
Struggle
Rights
Law
First
Glorious
Though
Tables
Imperfect
Inspired
Between
Most
Concept
Periods
Rome
Republican
Twelve
Appeared
They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.
Ernst Zundel
Me
Rights
Hate
Police
Approach
Has-Been
Constitutional
Miracle
Constitutional Rights
Taken
Because
Been
Campaign
Accorded
Intense
Vicious
Against
Professional
Media
Credit
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
Esther Dyson
Government
Rights
Everybody
Liberties
Evolution
Stay
Civil
Civil Liberties
General
Take
Hackers
Well
Became
Began
Frontier
Then
Electronic
Foundation
Away
I am a Democrat and disagree with virtually all of President Trump's policy positions, including those on healthcare, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, immigration, global warming, gun control, and tax 'reform.'
Eva Moskowitz
Rights
Immigration
Disagree
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Positions
President
Virtually
Those
Civil
Civil Rights
Global
Democrat
Global Warming
Policy
Healthcare
Am
Trump
Reform
Tax
Tax Reform
Warming
Including
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
Evan Bayh
Rights
People
Situation
Human Rights
Must
Korean
North
Improve
North Korean
Human
Deplorable
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