Rights Quotes · Page 9

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

— Howard Berman

“There's rights, and there's right.”

— Karen Traviss

Workers' rights must be respected.

— Luciana Berger

Human rights takes history out of justice.

— Arundhati Roy

“Human rights don't trickle down.”

— Heather Marsh

“Beauty has rights that plainness never will.”

— Kristin Cashore

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Suffering gives us no special rights.

— Albert Camus

I am saying it myself that 'Aashiqui' should not end with me. I don't hold the rights of the film.

— Rahul Roy

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

— Liu Xiaobo

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.

— Israel Shahak

Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights

— Tariq Ramadan

Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth.

— Maria Ressa

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

— Akbar Ganji

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

— NeNe Leakes

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

— Rachel Carson

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer.…

— Joe Biden

It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights…

— Barack Obama

If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of…

— Marco Rubio

“A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation…

— Ayn Rand

We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love.…

— Otis Moss III

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

We understand our audience. We write to the things that concern our audience. At one point, it was civil rights. You know,…

— Linda Johnson Rice

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to…

— Elizabeth Taylor

In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one…

— Kofi Annan

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before…

— Anonymous

I don't deny that religion is very healthful to a lot of people. And as long as they don't try to convert…

— Susan Jacoby

Well, I think we ought to definitely look at it and debate it. I think there are a lot of people who…

— Laura Bush

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide…

— Ian Mckellen

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And…

— James Stewart

The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their…

— David B. Rivkin

Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is…

— James Madison

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights…

— Samuel Adams

The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture…

— R.J. Rushdoony

If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the…

— Thomas Jefferson