Rights Quotes · Page 231

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights…

— Grover Cleveland

I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of…

— Sam Simon

I think it's important for women to speak up, it's important to speak up for their rights.

— Zeenat Aman

Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are…

— Mike DeWine

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

— Noam Chomsky

A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place,…

— Thomas Jefferson

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

— Garrett Hardin

The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious…

— Douglass North

[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government...…

— Thomas Jefferson

Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils…

— Gary Bauer

When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make…

— Hillary Clinton

“President Trump's health care plan is a human rights disaster.”

— Steven Magee

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

— Mother Teresa

The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of…

— Gerald R. Ford

What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West…

— Walter E. Williams

The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not…

— Urvashi Vaid

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free…

— William Ellery Channing

I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter…

— Ayelet Waldman

One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that…

— Sam Simon

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or…

— Lyman Trumbull

I somewhat resist the whole gay rights-vampire rights metaphor because it is fraught with problems. I don't want to be seen as…

— Denis O'Hare

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

— Shirin Ebadi