Rights Quotes

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

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

You can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too.

The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Here's the problem, we need folks like John Lewis and others who, I think, have been champions of voter rights, to actually recognize the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.