Rights Quotes
Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.
In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.
You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.
There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.
No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.
I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.
The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.