Rights Quotes

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

In Russia all people enjoy the equal rights, including homosexuals.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.

Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.

The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.

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.

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

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!