Rights Quotes

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?'

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

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.

Getting arrested is fun.

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

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.