Rights Quotes · Page 42

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

— Tariq Ali

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

— Joe Biden

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

— William Hazlitt

What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.

— Princess Michael of Kent

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

— Martin O'Malley

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

— Moritz Gudemann

I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record.

— Ed Schultz

Civil rights for Blacks, and gay rights for gays are two different things.

— Vernon Jones

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

— Maximilien Robespierre

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And…

— Bono

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more…

— Dinesh D'Souza

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need…

— John F. Kennedy

If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will…

— Norm Phelps

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all…

— Theodore Bikel

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the…

— George W. Romney

I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ…

— George Wallace

The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect…

— Lena Dunham

I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of…

— Sayani Gupta

“This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world. A…

— Sharon Biggs Waller

Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they…

— Judith Butler

Police have two rights that even the president does not have, the right to take liberty and to take life. Those are…

— Eric Adams

There's a number of other things where people can advocate for their positions, from a faith point of view on right to…

— Erin O'Toole

Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty…

— George W. Bush

Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not…

— William Blackstone

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against…

— Evo Morales

the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and…

— Susan Faludi

Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United…

— Mike Pence

The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history…

— Diane Chamberlain

“There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room.”

— Stephen Clarke

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

— Thomas Jefferson

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

— Joe Biden

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

— Frederick Romilly

In life, you can do what ever you like but every rights has a limit.

— Julie

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

— Shirin Ebadi