Rights Quotes

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters.

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

It is better to act right than seek right.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

One's interest or need does not annul other's right.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother.

Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Who’s gonna bring the wild animals some hope? If we don’t love them the way they are..

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.

The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.

How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.

O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.

Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do.

Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.

All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.

Women are no sheep.

Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.

Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.

You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.