Rights Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.