Rights Quotes · Page 10

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

— Laura Bush

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan…

— Ray Bradbury

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging…

— Patrick Henry

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than…

— Patrick Leahy

Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs…

— Phyllis Schlafly

The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

— Fethullah Gulen

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand…

— Paul Watson

The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles.…

— Anonymous

Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic…

— Goapele

If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony…

— Harry Belafonte

We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more…

— Mairead Corrigan

I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which…

— Jill Stein

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China…

— Mary Robinson

I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country,…

— Fatou Bensouda

I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she's not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important…

— Sonia Braga

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to…

— Socrates

“Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.”

— Ron Brackin

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

— Patricia Wentworth

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage,…

— Walter Bagehot

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

— Jeannette Rankin

To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were…

— Bonnie Raitt

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the…

— Bill Ayers

Prior to civil rights, the Democratic Party had been defined by an increasingly untenable alliance of ideological opposites - integrationist Northern liberals…

— Steve Kornacki

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I…

— Al Franken