Rights Quotes

The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people who not only live the Bill of Rights, but try to shape the reason for that.

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.

No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights....We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have provided so much for so many.

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.