Rights Quotes
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.
We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.
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The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.
I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.
I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.
What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.
I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
51 years ago, when Hillary Clinton was working on the Goldwater campaign, Bernie Sanders was getting locked up for my rights. 50 years later he's talking about doing something and not talking.
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights.
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.
With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties.
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.
Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.
Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.