Rights Quotes

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

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.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

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.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

We need to talk with each other, honestly, simply, caringly.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

I believe in equal rights for all people.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.