Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Sachs

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

Christopher Hitchens

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Christopher Hitchens

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.

Jason Mraz

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

Hillary Clinton

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

Hillary Clinton

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress,

Hillary Clinton

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

Hillary Clinton

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

Hillary Clinton

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

Hillary Clinton

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

Evgeny Morozov

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.

Evan Bayh

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

Eva Longoria

I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.

Faye Wattleton

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

Ezra Pound

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Ezra Taft Benson

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.

Francis Hutcheson

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

Frances Wright

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Frances Wright

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Floyd Abrams

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

George W. Romney

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

George Washington

The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.

George Washington

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

George Washington

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

George Washington

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

George Nethercutt

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

George W. Bush

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

George W. Bush

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

George Soros

The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

Frederick Douglass

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.

George F. Kennan

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

Fernando Alonso

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

Fiona Shaw

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.