Rights Quotes · Page 6

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

— Howard Berman

Atheism has no room for human rights.

— Richard Halverson

I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

— Kate del Castillo

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

We need to protect voting rights.

— Josh Shapiro

You can't have occupation and human rights.

— Christopher Hitchens

Equal rights for women and queer folks!

— Wangechi Mutu

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Danny Glover

Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin.

— G. Edward Griffin

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

— Cory Booker

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

— Henry Rollins

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

— J. Paul Getty

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

— Benjamin Butler

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

— Carol Bellamy

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

— Desmond Tutu

There's a long bipartisan tradition of civil rights enforcement.

— Tom Perez

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

— John Ashcroft

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

— Irene Khan

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of…

— Michael Manley

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

— Norman Jewison

Out-of-control bureaucrats have put politics over common-sense policy with government mandates that force people to choose between earning a paycheck and violating…

— Jim Bob Duggar

PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc,…

— Jack Tretton

He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much.…

— Barbra Streisand

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

— Patricia Wentworth

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and…

— Stephanie Coontz

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and…

— Jose Rizal

My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned…

— Kathryn Lasky

Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver…

— Ban Ki-moon

Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the…

— William Greider

Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we…

— Judith Butler

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision…

— David Boies

Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm really into the rights of immigrants, the rights of the working poor. I'm one of those little activist types. I probably…

— Junot Diaz

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably…

— James Madison

I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]…

— Van Jones

Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against…

— James Madison

It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first…

— Molly Antopol

If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and…

— Jonah Goldberg

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes…

— John Hospers

Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd…

— Sinclair Lewis