Rights Quotes
Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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?
You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.
Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.
Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.
If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.
I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.
Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.
Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.
The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.
There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.
As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
