Rights Quotes · Page 33

I learnt about the universe. I learnt about human rights and human dignity - this was so new to me.

— Park Yeon-mi

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

— James Howe

Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.

— Macklemore

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

— Mahatma Gandhi

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

— Joe Biden

“I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.”

— Jay Woodman

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

— Khalil Gibran

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

— Glenn Beck

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights,…

— Earl Warren

I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

— Noam Chomsky

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And…

— Richard Curtis

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

— William Ernest Hocking

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body…

— Billie Jean King

The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious……

— Ray Kurzweil

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

— Thomas Jefferson

There were a lot of Romneys. There was the Romney who was ; going to be better on gay rights than Ted…

— Barney Frank

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi…

— Jack Canfield

I'm not going to say how, specifically, but I will continue to speak out about human rights and freedoms. Absolutely. We can…

— Angelina Jolie

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the…

— William Ellery Channing

I have fought the establishment, run primaries, my entire career. I think that for Planned Parenthood or NARAL or the Human Rights…

— Claire McCaskill

We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United…

— Alan Dershowitz

The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and…

— Paul Vixie

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not…

— Douglas Feith

Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched…

— Shereen El Feki

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase…

— Vandana Shiva

A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to…

— L. Frank Baum

For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there…

— Michelle Alexander

One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He…

— H. Verlan Andersen

The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming…

— Otep Shamaya

A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a…

— James Madison

The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line…

— Julian Castro

“A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.”

— Pat Conroy

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

— Danny Kaye

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

— Jacques Maritain

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

— Anonymous

“Stand up to your rights to protect your integrity.”

— Emily Bilman

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

— Charles Sumner

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

— Peter Norman

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon