Rights Quotes

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

— Mary Robinson

We don't have rights until we claim them.

— Richard Bach

I charged Rs 101 for the rights to my biopic.

— Sandeep Singh

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

— Laura Schlessinger

I don't fight for bragging rights.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

“Even taxpayers have rights!”

— Beric J. Croome

“Speak gently but look out for your rights.”

— Christine de Pizan

I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

— Ilhan Omar

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

— Oliver Stone

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

— J. B. Pritzker

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

— Joichi Ito

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

— Paul Farmer

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

— Ai Weiwei

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

— Albert Camus

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all,

— Elizabeth May

The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to…

— Ali Abunimah

We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

— Ted Cruz

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who…

— Richard Hatch

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

— Adolf Hitler

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the…

— Marvin Simkin

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

— Andrei Sakharov

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is…

— Ted Olson

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon…

— William Wilberforce

We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT…

— Hillary Clinton

I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and…

— Pamela Yates

Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court,…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

We have to remember that the United States has certain principles, certain values that bind us all together, that make us all…

— Reza Aslan

Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches…

— Vint Cerf

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to…

— Glenn Beck

America has become and was the exception to the way most of the people in the world were forced to live, because…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we…

— Henry David Thoreau

The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World…

— Edward S. Herman

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?"…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people…

— John Diamond

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no…

— Thomas Jefferson