Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I thought of running for office when I was in law school, but I wanted to work on human rights. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
“One of the fundamental rights of mankind should be that of wearing as many or as few clothes as one likes inside… — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement. — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
For some of Britain's most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate.… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash… — Reginald Hudlin Copy Share Image
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness. We claim them from a higher source. from the King of… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with. — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
You can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too. — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
