Rights Quotes · Page 118

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal…

— John Charles Polanyi

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and…

— Hillary Clinton

Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed…

— Ed Buckner

“What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps”

— Nathan Phelps

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

— Mother Teresa

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Obama seems to inspire a bizarre personal loyalty among his advocates, particularly among young people who should by all rights be concerned…

— Ben Shapiro

In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our…

— William A. Rusher

Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It…

— Shirin Ebadi

If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside…

— George Washington

We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of…

— Matthew Coon Come

One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have…

— Colin Farrell

This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether…

— Barbara Brandriff Crabb

We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look…

— James Madison

I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing.…

— Mairead Corrigan

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

— Jimmy Carter

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has used his state's budget deficit as an excuse to attack collective-bargaining rights.

— Neera Tanden

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights.…

— Wayne Smith

Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would…

— Dick Durbin

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

— Jeffrey Rosen

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

— Liv Ullmann

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

— Donald Trump

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

— Jonathan Krohn

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

— Hillary Clinton

Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the…

— Glenn Greenwald

My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.

— Killer Mike

The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.

— David Duke

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

— Potter Stewart

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state…

— Joel Bakan

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human…

— Terence McKenna

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was…

— Dick Gregory

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

— Michael Moriarty

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,…

— Robert Kennedy

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— Mak_786