Rights Quotes

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

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

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

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

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.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

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.

Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

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.

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.

And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

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.

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.