Traian Basescu Quotes

It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities.

All people have a natural and inherent right to emigrate from one State to another

Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in, and leave Canada.

We need autocracies and failing democracies alike to understand that they cannot scapegoat LGBT citizens to distract from their own shortcomings.

You and I must demonstrate love to our gay neighbors, of course, remembering that we are ultimately engaged in spiritual warfare. But we should boldly stand up when our rights as citizens and the demands of our conscience are threatened.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.

The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.

Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

I think there is a problem in France that anyone who is not European, you want to know where they come from and why do they come from somewhere or why they speak English or why they are human. That's the big barrier for all of us that are coming from some far, far away countries. But at the end of the day, we are all artists.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Syria, for all its problems, at least has a constitution that guarantees equal protection of citizens. Around the world, we have seen that this is essential where Christians are a minority and are not protected.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.