Rights Quotes · Page 116

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

— John F. Kennedy

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights…

— Helen Thomas

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

— Max Martin

You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.

— Drew Magary

“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom…

— Joseph Heller

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the…

— Thomas Carlyle

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be…

— Betty Ford

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem…

— Noreena Hertz

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations…

— Vandana Shiva

If we were to allow the Chris Grayling and his cronies to tear up the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the…

— Emily Thornberry

The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people.…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase,…

— Mary Robinson

The Trump Administration wants to unilaterally do away with the states' rights protections in the Clean Air Act. But the authority given…

— Josh Shapiro

It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their…

— Ban Ki-moon

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and…

— Mike Quigley

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

— Samantha Power

China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent…

— Jiang Zemin

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust,…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know…

— Mark Twight

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio,…

— Norman Jewison

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

— Gary L. Francione

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All…

— Marilyn Monroe

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

— Ryan Miller

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at…

— John Dingell

“It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any…

— Christina Engela

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

— Faye Wattleton

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath…

— Robert Ballard

The Tories’ major announcement was to scrap the Human Rights Act, because, and I quote, ‘people get very frustrated with human rights.’

— Tim Farron

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

— Voltaire

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't…

— Ronee Blakley

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

— Penn Jillette

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

— Edgar Schein

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.

— Santan Dave

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

— L. Neil Smith

I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color…

— Hillary Clinton

“Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.”

— Ron Brackin