Rights Quotes · Page 134

In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core…

— Noam Chomsky

Not one of the investigations for civil rights violations that Eric Holder brought on behalf of the Department of Justice, resulted in…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we…

— Dalai Lama

Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal…

— Jerry Falwell

Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is…

— Naomi Wolf

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe…

— Jeanette Winterson

What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with…

— Anonymous

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on…

— Vandana Shiva

I've lived my whole life as a minority in this country, and my rights don't exist in a vacuum. My rights are…

— Humza Yousaf

My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights…

— Rosalynn Carter

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property…

— Ibn Khaldun

What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a…

— Betty Ford

If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic…

— William Greider

I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's…

— Claire Danes

In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of…

— Owen Jones

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that…

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order…

— Nelson Mandela

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some…

— Amy Poehler

The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now…

— Philip Alston

Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions…

— Mary Robinson

Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the…

— Jay Leno

We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost…

— Charles Colson

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right…

— Robert Griffin III

You have the rights to arbitrarily break someone's heart, play with their feelings, rape them, or even kill them. But be sure…

— Mak_786

Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have…

— John Lewis

When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our…

— Tobias Wolff

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be…

— Mike Pence

Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is…

— Susan Rice

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.…

— John F. Kennedy

To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call…

— Frederick Buechner

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve…

— Vito Fossella

Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff […

— Lizz Winstead

Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference…

— Jimmy Carter

When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more…

— Gary Potter

No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication…

— Arthur Goldberg