Rights Quotes · Page 111

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this…

— Sigourney Weaver

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear…

— Polybius

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and…

— Stephen Hadley

If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you…

— Ellen DeGeneres

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation…

— Anonymous

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

— Ro Khanna

As I grew up, I watched and learned about women who fought for voting rights, civil rights and reproductive freedom among others.

— Laphonza Butler

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My goal is to bring the issues that were never brought up on federal TV, such as LGBT rights, which are a…

— Ksenia Sobchak

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is…

— Tom Regan

Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged…

— Noam Chomsky

They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A…

— Noam Chomsky

I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy…

— William Howard Taft

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the…

— Andrew Jackson

We [Israel] already have two very strong democratic tools - the two basic laws of personal liberties and human rights. I think…

— Ayelet Shaked

For a person [like John Lewis] that is a champion of voter rights to question whether or not Donald Trump legitimately won…

— John Lewis

I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is…

— Jerry Vlasak

We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will…

— Jimmy Carter

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the…

— Barack Obama

“We believe that the body hath its rights — to move in a reasonable ambit — to raise, to lower its limbs…

— M.T. Anderson

The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be…

— Phil Robertson

I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what…

— Stephen Marche

You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly…

— Barack Obama

When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights…

— James Hilton

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as…

— Phyllis Schlafly

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?

— Glenn Beck

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you…

— Dennis Miller

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor…

— Helen Clark

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the…

— Susette La Flesche

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.

— Ronald Reagan

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

— Zadie Smith

I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say,…

— Lesley Gore

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates…

— George Washington

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

— Rand Paul

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

— Tammy Bruce

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past…

— Aberjhani

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

— Rebecca MacKinnon