Rights Quotes · Page 60

We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our…

— Malcolm X

“Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and…

— Ban Ki-moon

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters…

— Stephen King

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

More and more Republicans are recognizing and respecting the essential dignity of individuals who are gay and deserve the full rights of…

— Margaret Hoover

We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.

— Tamzin Merchant

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree…

— Rush Limbaugh

Everyone has a right to live,love and work..

— Shobhit Tiwari

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of…

— Thomas Hutchinson

I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people…

— Barbara Jordan

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

— James Russell Lowell

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,…

— Walter Lippmann

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are…

— Justin Trudeau

When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil…

— Thomas Sowell

As a feminist you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking we…

— Evie Wyld

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

— Will Rogers

In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core…

— Noam Chomsky

The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one…

— Alexander Hamilton

I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.

— Harvey Milk

Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed…

— Frederic Bastiat

Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it…

— Vittorio Arrigoni

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be…

— Noam Chomsky

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in…

— Carl Sagan

We are taking additional measures to ensure security and stability in Tal Afar and to restore its people's rights

— Ibrahim al-Jaafari

We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance,…

— Poul Hartling

We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.

— Gary Rossington

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to…

— Elizabeth I

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

— Kofi Annan

The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement…

— James Madison

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

— Nat Hentoff

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

— Pearl S. Buck

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was…

— Rand Paul

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

— Ravi Zacharias

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

— Kathryn Stockett

For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

— Jeffrey Tambor

“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would…

— Lucille Ball