Rights Quotes

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.

Fundamental rights are not a given today. We have to protect them.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?

What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

‎"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Love is a better way.

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

Racism is a disease of white people

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now

Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.