Rights Quotes · Page 15

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

— Hillary Clinton

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

— John Kennedy

I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.

— Joel Madden

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

— Hugo Grotius

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

— Glenn Beck

“A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.”

— Pat Conroy

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

— Danny Kaye

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

— Jacques Maritain

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his…

— Edmund Burke

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,…

— Walter E. Williams

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

— Ayn Rand

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

— Constance Baker Motley

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

— Vladimir Putin

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

— Roger Sherman

I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense…

— Nat Hentoff

The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of…

— Richard M. Nixon

The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the…

— John C. Calhoun

There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out…

— Dean Spade

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial…

— Pauley Perrette

What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist.…

— Susan B. Anthony

Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our…

— George W. Bush

Let them all believe whatever they want. It is pointless to go on radio shows and wrangle over mystical claims. However, such…

— James A. Haught

The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to…

— Richard A. Falk

“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all…

— GaryLFrancione

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues…

— Danny Glover

The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the…

— Peter Padfield

When I speak to students about the Civil Rights Movement, I say that it is impossible to stop a determined movement that…

— John Lewis

“My civil rights will not be trampled, and I say this not for me but for my children, and all those who…

— Glenn Beck

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase…

— Vandana Shiva

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

— Anonymous

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

— Charles Sumner

“Stand up to your rights to protect your integrity.”

— Emily Bilman

I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.

— Peter Norman

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

— Earl Warren

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

— James Howe

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

— Mahatma Gandhi