Rights Quotes · Page 63

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

— Edward Snowden

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

— Edmund Burke

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

— Marco Rubio

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

— Ishmael Beah

We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.

— Queen Noor of Jordan

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

Democracy is a precious thing and the rights of parliament are a precious thing.

— Nicky Morgan

“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to…

— Noah Webster

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living":…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender,…

— Zoya Phan

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for…

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the…

— Pat Robertson

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

— Boyd Rice

I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

“the Darwinian world of nature, however, which they claim is the only one, there can be no such things as rights, either…

— C.R. Hallpike

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly…

— Oscar Wilde

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and…

— Isham G. Harris

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for…

— Hillary Clinton

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock…

— John Dickinson

The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized…

— Pope John Paul II

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North…

— Sheila Jackson Lee

“You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due…

— Victor Methos

It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom…

— Pope Leo XIII

When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men…

— Barack Obama

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with…

— Samuel Adams

“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the…

— Immanuel Kant

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these…

— Anonymous

“Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or…

— Glenn Beck

I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she's not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important…

— Sonia Braga

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

— Carol Bellamy

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

— Mary Frances Berry

The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.

— Rich Eisen

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

— Nigel Farage

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

— Keith Ablow

Requiring forced arbitration agreements limits consumer rights and protections.

— Conor Lamb

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

— Ian Mckellen

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

— Samuel Johnson