Rights Quotes · Page 35

Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same…

— Cesar Chavez

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously…

— Stephen Kinzer

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Earl Warren

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights…

— Susan B. Anthony

It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even…

— Mary Robinson

Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America,…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a…

— Nat Hentoff

America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything…

— Ayn Rand

I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so…

— Tabatha Coffey

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This…

— Ludwig von Mises

A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of…

— Clarence Thomas

Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing…

— Russell Means

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

— David Remnick

I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of…

— Jose James

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

— Sandra Lee

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do…

— Oswald Chambers

People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is…

— Rand Paul

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see…

— Wangari Maathai

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

— Malcolm X

And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have…

— Jon Porter

Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time…

— Arundhati Roy

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all…

— John Roberts

Fighting for tenants' rights has never been about political posturing for me. It's very personal. It's why I fight for everyone who's…

— London Breed