Rights Quotes

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.

It's animal by animal that you save a species.

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

The last stop to protect rights and liberties is the Supreme Court.

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.

Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!

We will save our sovereign rights as a nation.

Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the case, that mass surveillance is a violation of rights.

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards.

People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.

Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

People are demanding their rights and not backing down and I hope that change is on the horizon and change will come to Ethiopia soon, so I don't have even go that far to seek a U.S. citizenship.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.

A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.

Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.