Rights Quotes

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

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.

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.

It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

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

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

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.

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

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

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 tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

There was no miracle that night.

An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated. If they sell it, they lose bragging rights.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.