Rights Quotes

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

We have to "walk the walk" not just "talk the talk".

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.