Rights Quotes · Page 145

Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils…

— Gary Bauer

When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make…

— Hillary Clinton

“President Trump's health care plan is a human rights disaster.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Mother Teresa

The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of…

— Gerald R. Ford

What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West…

— Walter E. Williams

The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not…

— Urvashi Vaid

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free…

— William Ellery Channing

I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter…

— Ayelet Waldman

One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that…

— Sam Simon

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or…

— Lyman Trumbull

I somewhat resist the whole gay rights-vampire rights metaphor because it is fraught with problems. I don't want to be seen as…

— Denis O'Hare

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

— Shirin Ebadi

And when 9/11 came, that was open season to violate human rights. And that's how I was kidnapped.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

— John Dickinson

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

— Vernon Jones

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

— J. B. Pritzker

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society...…

— Stephen Harper

Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

— Ted Cruz

...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and…

— Walter E. Williams

When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of…

— George W. Bush

Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.

— Sharan Burrow

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

— Spider Robinson

Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native…

— William J. Clinton

“Never deny others their right to criticize or to hate you, and yourself your right to ignore them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about…

— Peter Mullan

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

— Georges Bernanos

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance…

— Anonymous

Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things 
to relieve women’s…

— Evie Wyld

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives…

— John F. Kennedy

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights…

— Christopher Hitchens

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November…

— Questlove

Until the U.N. can defend objective human rights, not subjective ideological bias, it is a scourge to the values it claims to…

— Anna Paulina Luna