Rights Quotes
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.
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers
The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.
Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.
The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.
If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.
China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state.
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.
There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights
America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.
Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.
Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?