Rights Quotes

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

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

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

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.

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.

I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

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

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.