Rights Quotes · Page 34

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

— Earl Warren

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

— Anonymous

Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

— Abraham Lincoln

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

— Mahatma Gandhi

To have a safe bet is to have a purpose of freedom

— Anonymous

[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.

— Hillary Clinton

The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.

— Michael Scheuer

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

— Carolyn Maloney

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights,…

— Ed Koch

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise…

— Rob Lowe

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

— Stephen A. Smith

See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your…

— Narendra Modi

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very…

— Henry Waxman

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional…

— Henry Steele Commager

We can't take a step backwards when we've already made so many strides forward. I was raised by gay men and women...it's…

— Drew Barrymore

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they…

— Elliott Abrams

As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must…

— Anonymous

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to…

— Elizabeth I

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the…

— Rene Cassin

American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity…

— Richard A. Falk

If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends…

— James Madison

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues…

— Danny Glover

“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all…

— GaryLFrancione

The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully…

— Carl Safina

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of…

— Malcolm X

Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole…

— Jill Stein

The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...

— Ayn Rand

I wish that I had the guts to stand up for gay rights.

— Chi Chi DeVayne

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

— Anthony Trollope

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

— Ravi Zacharias

I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.

— Nina Turner

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

— Edwin Markham

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

— Julia Serano