Rights Quotes · Page 6

For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow…

— Umar

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

— Jozef Pilsudski

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up…

— Sami Al-Arian

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

— Lawrence Lessig

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

— John Legend

Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are…

— Lundy Bancroft

It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in…

— Thomas Paine

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon…

— Edward Snowden

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

— Evita Peron

Gay People can’t do this. Women shouldn’t be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you’re attacking my rights.

— Remi Kanazi

Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Nina Turner

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners -…

— Alan Gottlieb

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to…

— Edward S. Herman

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe…

— Jeanette Winterson

When the civil rights are denying by the authorities, in a country.The people will be under the slavery , from the slavery…

— Sumesh Nair

Not one of the investigations for civil rights violations that Eric Holder brought on behalf of the Department of Justice, resulted in…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

Is driving a right? You are entitled to a driving license if you can abide by the traffic laws and drive responsibly.…

— Ali Sina

The president of the United States, his role is to uphold and to fight for the rights of every person, every American.

— Kurt Warner

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense…

— Anonymous

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose,…

— Barbara Boxer