Rights Quotes

I believe that American engagement, through our embassy, our businesses, and most of all through our people, is the best way to advance our interests and support for democracy and human rights.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.

People have opinions about everything and especially when you get into that world of animal rights or tree rights or whatever rights, they all have an opinion.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

I don't fight for bragging rights.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

The problem with being a gun rights supporter is that the left hates guns and the right hates rights.

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.