Rights Quotes · Page 232

And when 9/11 came, that was open season to violate human rights. And that's how I was kidnapped.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

— John Dickinson

Civil rights for Blacks, and gay rights for gays are two different things.

— Vernon Jones

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

— J. B. Pritzker

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society...…

— Stephen Harper

Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

— Ted Cruz

...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and…

— Walter E. Williams

When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of…

— George W. Bush

Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.

— Sharan Burrow

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

— Spider Robinson

Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native…

— William J. Clinton

“Never deny others their right to criticize or to hate you, and yourself your right to ignore them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about…

— Peter Mullan

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

— Georges Bernanos

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance…

— Anonymous

Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things 
to relieve women’s…

— Evie Wyld

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives…

— John F. Kennedy

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights…

— Christopher Hitchens

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November…

— Questlove

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