Rights Quotes

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no voice.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.