Rights Quotes · Page 46

The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

In both houses of Congress, bipartisan legislation has been introduced to ensure that the rights of states and cities to make drone…

— Robin Hayes

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police…

— Ari Shapiro

“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.”

— DaShanne Stokes

[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator…

— Alexander Hamilton

By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Not a single time have we gotten our rights from Congress or the President, we get them from God. And when He…

— Glenn Beck

I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,”…

— Rachel Caine

I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think…

— Randy Barnett

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts,…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Once you have realized that law enforcement are not going to uphold your legal rights, you should always exercise your legal right…

— Steven Magee

Veterans Affairs (VA) is a mess of a government agency and too often abuses the rights and interests of veterans it is…

— Tom Fitton

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and…

— John Adams

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who…

— Tina Brown

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in…

— Bill Ayers

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending…

— George Washington

The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no…

— Dion Fortune

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that…

— Valerie Jarrett

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

— Shana Alexander

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay…

— Bart Stupak

I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right…

— Chester Barnard

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre,…

— David Henry Hwang

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated.…

— Slobodan Milosevic

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality,…

— Arne Duncan