Quotes about rights
rights people lgbt
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
rights politics speak
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.
rights media expression
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. Evgeny Morozov
rights people helping
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people. Evan Bayh
rights
I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights. Eva Longoria
rights birth-control able
If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect. Faye Wattleton
rights liberty duty
Liberty is not a right but a duty. Ezra Pound
rights government political
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. Ezra Taft Benson
rights government essentials
Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments. Francis Hutcheson
rights limits honest
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
rights justice instruction
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
rights people not-good-enough
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. Floyd Abrams
rights states permit
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 W. Romney
rights arbitrary use
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
rights kingdom-hearts insightful
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
rights government long
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.
rights office asylums
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.
rights guarantees-that justice
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 Nethercutt
rights president done
No President has ever done more for human rights than I have. George W. Bush
rights achievement liberty
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.
rights friendly auctions
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. George Soros
rights race humanity
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity. Frederick Douglass
rights standards should
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. George F. Kennan
rights tvs spain
In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One. Fernando Alonso
rights democracies-have democracy
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. Fiona Shaw
rights class ironic
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. Henry Louis Gates
rights security whatsoever
Before our contract, we had no rights whatsoever and no security whatsoever.
rights soul doubt
no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any Friedrich Nietzsche
rights evil giving
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
rights two bent
Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along. Franz Grillparzer
rights people justice
Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.
rights victory important
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. Jim Costa
rights doe modern
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. Georges Bernanos