Rights Quotes · Page 39

If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the…

— Jeanne Phillips

I'm really excited to allow my career to go in the direction that feel rights at any given time.

— Jamie Demetriou

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know…

— Rita Dove

Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever…

— Antonin Scalia

While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of…

— Frederick Lenz

Our evenly matched rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness require an equal paycheck.

— Letitia James

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought…

— John Krasinski

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

— Claire McCaskill

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

— Vladimir Putin

Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.

— David Duke

I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights,

— Portia Simpson-Miller

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

— Anonymous

My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

— Alan Dershowitz

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

— Zadie Smith

I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is…

— Muhammad Iqbal

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

— NeNe Leakes

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to…

— Laurence Tribe

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common…

— Malcolm X

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

— Anonymous

My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights.

— Andrea Suarez Paz

Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Our innate, built-in human value is the reason we have binding duties or obligations towards each other that we don't have towards…

— Greg Koukl