Rights Quotes · Page 255

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think…

— Barack Obama

Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can…

— Bernie Sanders

In Cuba, His Holiness [Pope Francis] won't find a government that protects its people and their God-given rights. Instead, he will find…

— Marco Rubio

[M]y mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. And while she may…

— Julian Castro

I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.

— Peter Norman

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

— Oliver Stone

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She…

— Leonard Cohen

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a…

— Dalai Lama

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have…

— Anonymous

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

— Anonymous

We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

— Carly Fiorina

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

— Justin Trudeau

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours…

— Edward Kennedy

Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she…

— Chrissy Teigen

If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline…

— Kang Youwei

They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been…

— Ernst Zundel

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

— Alexander Rodchenko

Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort…

— Thomas Jefferson

I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an…

— Jack Thorne

Whether you're gay, straight, black, white, we all deserve the same rights. If there's anything I can do to champion the cause…

— Nick Symmonds

Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have…

— Michael T. Flynn

Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often…

— Amartya Sen

Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I…

— Philippa Gregory

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization.…

— George F. Kennan