Rights Quotes

It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your Acts, the Nation needs action.

India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights relating to land are with the states.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that.

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.

Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.