Rights Quotes

I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Your rights end where my nose begins.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

I'm deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states' rights rhetoric.

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

Rights come from God and only from God.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

Suffering gives us no special rights.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.