Rights Quotes · Page 17

We need to, in my opinion, to restore the full strength of the federal Voting Rights Act.

— Alex Padilla

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

— Ellen DeGeneres

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

— Nan Aron

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

— Lance Morrow

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

— Hillary Clinton

No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.

— Neal Boortz

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure…

— Adam Cohen

U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but…

— Luis Gutierrez

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

— Fethullah Gulen

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do…

— Barack Obama

Virginia's laws reinforce parents' fundamental rights to make decisions with regards to their child's upbringing and care.

— Glenn Youngkin

One thing I learned in the military is we fight for everybody's rights to say and do as they please, so everybody…

— Liz Carmouche

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

— Andreja Pejic

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

— Miroslav Lajcak

Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large…

— John Bright

And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of…

— Taylor Branch

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and…

— Atifete Jahjaga

If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian…

— Tulsi Tanti

This is America, and you have the right to remain sick. If you choose to treat yourself and your family, that is…

— Andrew Saul

Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's…

— Robert Kuttner

Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of…

— Virginia Postrel

They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul…

— Hadewijch

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of…

— Joseph Stalin

Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce.…

— Claudia Gray

Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the…

— Sadako Ogata

Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. ... Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating,…

— Alex Epstein

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation…

— Pankaj Mishra

To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested…

— Vesanto Melina

There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was…

— Thabo Mbeki

Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.

— Yousef Saanei

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

— Simon Wiesenthal

“Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.”

— A.E. Samaan

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

— Susan B. Anthony

We won't shrink from protecting our democracy and the voting rights of all Americans.

— Ruben Gallego

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

— Hillary Clinton

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

— Angela Davis

Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.

— Chris Cuomo