Rights Quotes

I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog

Being able to laugh got me through.

For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.