Rights Quotes

We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

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.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

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.

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

The true source of rights is duty.

I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.

We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God.‎

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

Defend yourselves! If people don't defend their rights, they lose them.

You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?

You can't kill the truth.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love. And we live our faith; we don't legislate our faith.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.