Rights Quotes

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no- fly lists.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.