Rights Quotes
Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?
There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.
The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.
Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.
