Rights Quotes

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights.

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

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

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself!

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.

When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.