Rights Quotes

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.