Rights Quotes

Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.

I believe in the rights of every individual and to have the opportunity to help strengthen our members and to give them voice has been a privilege. I really am honored.

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?

When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities.

Iran is determined to remove ambiguities, continue talks and win its rights.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else.

I'm going to stand up for what [Donald Trump] says and does that is threatening to Americans, to the lives of Americans, the rights of Americans.

Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods.

I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.

Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

Winners don't eat wieners.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

They have rights who dare maintain them.