Rights Quotes

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I think that equality needs to be broadened to include equal access to comprehensive healthcare, equal access to jobs, and equal rights in the workplace.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.