Rights Quotes

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.

American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.

I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

It is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.

Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.