Rights Quotes
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.
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
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.
In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.
No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.
We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.
In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.
But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.
I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.
We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.
Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.
When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.