Rights Quotes · Page 22

Foreign relations should involve human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection.

— Kevin de Leon

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

— Patricia Arquette

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

— Cindy Gallop

“We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.”

— Bill Maher

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

— Danny Glover

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

— Michael Tubbs

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a…

— Oscar Wilde

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw…

— Kenneth Chenault

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I…

— Desmond Tutu

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in…

— Don Lemon

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure…

— Richard Pipes

I have always supported the rights of those who want to be in a same-sex relationship. It is an individual person's choice.

— Dutee Chand

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

— Shana Alexander

When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the…

— Khaled Mashal

There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to…

— Laura Poitras

“manager’s bill of rights,” those basic things that you have a right to expect from your employees. Responsible employees: Are responsive to…

— Erika Andersen

“I’m an adult,” the boy says. “I got rights.” “Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man…

— Justin Torres

The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The…

— Dana Boente

The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people…

— Mark Steyn

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban…

— Arlo Guthrie

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been…

— Jim Garrison

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there…

— Haile Selassie

“I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only…

— Thomas Paine

We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and…

— Eric Thomas

“For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s…

— Oscar A. Romero

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation…

— Ayn Rand

Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two…

— James Madison

“The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing…

— GaryLFrancione

“Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom.”

— Sunday Adelaja

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.

— The Constitution Of Massachusetts

The only party that has better bragging rights than the Greens is the Bloc Quebecois.

— Elizabeth May

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

— Susan B. Anthony

One thing the Scottish boys want in the changing room is the bragging rights over the English lads.

— Robert Snodgrass

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

— Rick Allen