Rights Quotes

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.

Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded.

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.

Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.

What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school?

Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?