Rights Quotes · Page 230

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

— Dick Durbin

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by…

— Taslima Nasrin

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I…

— Rand Paul

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and…

— Michael McCaul

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or…

— Malcolm X

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

— Danny Glover

The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people.…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

— Ayn Rand

I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the…

— Jimmy Carter

These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair…

— Garry Robbins

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when…

— Michael Ignatieff

There are three billion women in the world who have vaginas. I don't think we can stop fighting for our sexual liberation,…

— Eve Ensler

A serious economic downturn will undermine women's rights on multiple levels. And it is the women who are already the most disadvantaged,…

— Konnie Huq

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and…

— Thomas Sowell

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation,…

— Nelson Mandela

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Shirin Ebadi

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the…

— Shimon Peres

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

— Leyla Zana

Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,…

— Michael Lind

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers…

— Harriet Harman

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

— Bertrand Russell