Rights Quotes

[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.

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?

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 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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

If you're not willing to speak out for the rights of other people, then who do you expect to speak out for you when it's your turn?

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.

Fundamental rights are for everyone and have to be respected by everyone. But we can't be naïve in dealing with those who are abusing the principles protecting fundamental rights.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.