Rights Quotes

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs...but to teach my faith to my children...and to share it with anyone who will listen...that is my right too!

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.

[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch has in that country.

If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for the rights of all Iraqis.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be made to defend their right to do it.

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.