Rights Quotes

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had.

In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

We are taking additional measures to ensure security and stability in Tal Afar and to restore its people's rights

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism... is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.

Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

Victims should come first.

If you pay 50 million for something, you probably pay another 50 to 100 million to activate it. And the more you spend, the better you do. There is no point in just buying rights.