Rights Quotes
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.
Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.
Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.
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.
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.
Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.
A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."
The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.
I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.
So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.
As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.
As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.
Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.
Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.
I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.
Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.