Rights Quotes · Page 18

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

— Ayn Rand

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

— Abraham Lincoln

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

— Anonymous

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

— Liu Junning

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

— E. W. Howe

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

— David Price

Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.

— Kirsten Powers

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

“No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change…

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the…

— Dean Rusk

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights…

— Bill Drayton

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

— Liu Xiaobo

If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just…

— Hillary Clinton

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of…

— Ronald Reagan

Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get…

— Mark McKinnon

We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of…

— Charlize Theron

This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi…

— Shane Claiborne

Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I am proud of my husband, Marcus, the love of my life, and his Swiss heritage. Even though I have been a…

— Michele Bachmann

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or…

— Jack Antonoff

The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the…

— Angelina Grimke

While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality…

— Anonymous

I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of…

— Shirin Ebadi

To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of…

— Cornell William Brooks

I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason…

— Rashad Evans

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

— Ray Bradbury

Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it…

— Ajahn Brahm

All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who…

— Elizabeth Taylor

The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but…

— Glenn Greenwald

I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country…

— Mary Robinson

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

— Aaron McGruder

I am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country.

— Bernie Sanders

“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.”

— Russell Shorto

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

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

— George Washington

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

— Killer Mike

The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.

— Ted Nugent

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

— Mahatma Gandhi