Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen DeGeneres

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

H. L. Mencken

The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.

Valerie Jarrett

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

Wesley Clark

Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again.

Sandra Fluke

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

Rudy Giuliani

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society

Sam Brownback

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

Saddam Hussein

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

William Hague

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

William Hazlitt

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

Zoe Lister-Jones

The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Nancy Pelosi

Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Narendra Modi

India's democracy where over 1 billion people have a voice in deciding their future is a world example of how governance can incorporate diversity into a movement for inclusive growth. New modes of democratic engagement, especially through using e-governance are allowing greater access to fundamental rights for all our people.

Jacob Zuma

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

Henry Rollins

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Malcolm X

They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.

Malcolm X

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

Malcolm X

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

Mahatma Gandhi

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

Mahatma Gandhi

The true source of rights is duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

James Q. Wilson

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

Luis Gutierrez

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

James Connolly

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.