Rights Quotes

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism.

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

We're here to defend the rights that are enshrined to us by the Constitution, as Americans.

I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights.

I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our reform policies, of our new constitution.

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's.

Hillary Clinton is apparently very happy about [Barack] Obama clamping down on your 2nd Amendment rights.

We expect Germany to push more strongly for democracy and human rights in Turkey.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

I'm just short for my weight. By rights I should measure eight foot three.

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights

We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them.

I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

I think movie makers in every country are looking for ideas. It's interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don't buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.