Rights Quotes · Page 20

You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did…

— Judith Butler

It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave…

— Zachary Quinto

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise…

— Rob Lowe

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

— Patrick Henry

Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political…

— Anne Hathaway

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

— Peter Singer

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

— Taslima Nasrin

“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with…

— John Stuart Mill

I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people…

— Dustin Lance Black

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters…

— David Remnick

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

— Ken Livingstone

People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational…

— John Hickenlooper

So I was at the gas station the other day, and I saw that there was braille on the pumps. I don't…

— Zach Braff

I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I…

— Sheryl Crow

One really basic thing is to establish women's property and inheritance rights, so women can be their own agents within society.

— Neera Tanden

I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see…

— Yekaterina Samutsevich

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not…

— Plutarch

It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and…

— Lois Gibbs