Rights Quotes

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

You can't have occupation and human rights.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than when they used to install separate drinking fountains.

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws