Rights Quotes · Page 21

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Iran is determined to remove ambiguities, continue talks and win its rights.

— Hamid-Reza Assefi

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

— Ed Koch

As a civil rights attorney and the daughter of a preacher, I understand I have a debt to pay.

— Jasmine Crockett

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

— Mahatma Gandhi

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

— Waris Dirie

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

— Casey Wilson

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

— Hillary Clinton

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right…

— Hillary Clinton

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we…

— Paul Farmer

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen.…

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human…

— Vaclav Havel

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the…

— John Adams

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

— Tori Amos

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

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

— Zoe Lofgren

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust…

— Muhammad Yunus

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping…

— Barbara Boxer

“It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed…

— Margaret Landon

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats…

— Warren Christopher

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The…

— Bayard Rustin

That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal…

— Nikki Haley

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny.…

— Steve Stockman

If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for…

— Ehud Olmert

We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and…

— David Duke

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities,…

— Pope Francis

We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after…

— Barack Obama

If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left…

— George Carlin

Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a…

— Thom Yorke

“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form…

— George Cardinal Pell

NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed…

— Noam Chomsky

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

— Emma Bonino

“Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.”

— Jess C. Scott

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

— Ban Ki-moon

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

— Kelly Preston

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

— Andrew Young

I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.

— Caroline Norton

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

— Jack Kemp

“If you don't fight for your rights, you won't be able to help others fight for their own.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo