Rights Quotes · Page 238

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which…

— John Linder

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

— Margaret Thatcher

Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their…

— Alexander Hamilton

We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists…

— River Phoenix

Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to…

— Sheldon Richman

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve…

— Noam Chomsky

“It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government.…

— J.S.B. Morse

I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the…

— Stockwell Day

Even there, [Barack] Obama's generals, his Pentagon, they're telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And…

— Bill Ayers

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of…

— Robert H. Jackson

Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief…

— Marco Rubio

I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd…

— Bo Burnham

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors!…

— Mark Thomas

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

— Ronald Reagan

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was…

— Dick Gregory

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's…

— Newt Gingrich

I believe that it is my job to fight for the rights of others to have the same rights that I take…

— Michael Skolnik

In human rights theory it is very important that governments still have the primary responsibility for the standards and provision of such…

— Mary Robinson

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is…

— Dacia Maraini

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

— Elizabeth Price Foley

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.

— Dalai Lama

The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the…

— Albert Schweitzer